The search-and-rescue operation continues as 70 people are still missing after a mountain of construction waste and soil swept over dozens of buildings in the industrial park Liuxi in Shenzhen.
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At least four bodies have been recovered so far.
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Tian Zeming, a 21-year-old worker from Chongqing, suffered multiple bone fractures but was in no immediate danger.
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Doctors said he was in a stable condition but extremely weak.
The force of the landslide destroyed 33 buildings in its path. Initially, there were over 90 people that were reported missing.
Emergency workers jammed through a hole into a small room, pulling rubble out by hand over two hours to get to Tian. More than 4,000 rescue workers were digging up 16 different locations.
Zhang Yabin, an armed police who was part of the rescue, said oxygen and intravenous infusion had been supplied to Tian before he was removed from the rubble.
“We never thought it could be unsafe”, the man said.
The landslide eventually blanketed an area of 380,000 sq m (455,000 sq yards) – the equivalent of about 50 football fields.
For China, 2015 has been a year of man-made disasters, and many blame a regulatory environment which, shaped by a decades-long growth-at-all-costs development strategy, often allows cutting corners and corruption to undermine safety and environmental checks.
One local man, Wang Yongquan, who lived near the wreckage and was almost consumed by the landslide, told state media the once-empty quarry filled up fast with dirt and construction material during the last two years. However, there is no explanation as how so much mud has engulfed the area.
“The pile was too big, the pile was too steep, leading to instability and collapse”, the ministry said, adding that the original, natural hill remained intact.
State media reported that the New Guangming District government identified problems with the mountain of soil months earlier.
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Local residents who narrowly escaped the disaster still can not believe their loved ones had not been able to make it. This was followed by a cruise ship capsize on the Yangtze River in June and huge explosions at a chemicals warehouse in Tianjin that killed over 170 people in August.
