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China landslide survivor in hospital after 67-hour ordeal

A man has been pulled out alive from rubble in a southern Chinese city, more than 60 hours after a waste heap collapsed and buried dozens of buildings in mud and construction debris, state media said.

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Xinhua also said another body has been discovered, although it was not clear if that was the person to whom the survivor had referred.


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Just over three hours later, rescue workers in orange and red uniforms managed to hoist him from the scene of the disaster on the outskirts of Shenzhen, a sprawling factory hub in Guangdong province. The fallen debris seriously crushed Tian’s right lower leg but the hospital is doing as much as it can to save his lower limb, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Wang as saying.


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More than 70 people are still missing from the landslide.

He said the teenager was in stable condition and had undergone surgery at the Guangming New District Central Hospital.

“He told the soldiers who rescued him, there is another survivor close by”, Xinhua said.

Rescue worker Wang Yahui told CCTV that Tian may have been able to survive thanks to a beam that held up some space – a narrow 40 centimeter oxygen passage – after the building collapsed.

However, the person beside Tian was pronounced dead by the doctors after he was retrieved, according to rescuers.

A statement by China’s land ministry Sunday blamed the tragedy on the collapse of a 100-meter tall mountain of construction waste and dirt stored at a nearby waste dump, which was weakened by heavy rainstorms in the region.

“As long as there is a sliver of hope, we will never give up”, Zhang said.

Residents have said raised questions about why officials did not act to stop the growing mountain of construction waste, which they said they had feared was risky. On Tuesday, police raided the company that was managing the site, Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development.

This is China’s fourth major disaster in a year, beginning with a deadly stampede in Shanghai on New Year’s Eve, followed by a cruise ship capsize on the Yangtze River and massive explosions at a chemicals warehouse in Tianjin that killed more than 170 people.

The city had “pointed out problems at the site and requested steps to correct them”, the statement said.

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“Now, I suggest [we] express our deep condolences on the death of this brother who lost his life in the landslide disaster”, said Liu Qingsheng, Shenzhen’s Vice Mayor.

The deadly landslide in Shenzhen city has left two people dead 16 injured and 76 missing to date