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Man rescued three days after China mudslide
He somehow managed to survive all odds and was found alive three days after the landslide, after rescue workers rummaged through the debris.
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Sunday’s landslide came after heavy rain in the area, with mud and waste careening into multi-storey buildings at the Hengtaiyu industrial park in the city’s northwestern Guangming New District, toppling them in collisions that sent rivers of earth skyward. However, it later reported that rescuers found another body rather than a survivor.
The 19-year-old, named Tian Zeming, was rescued by a detachment of the armed police around 6:30 am And rushed to the Guangming New District Central Hospital.
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.
Questions are mounting over failure to prevent the mudslide, which erupted from a steep, man-made pile of dirt and construction debris. However, he is extremely weak, dehydrated and has sustained several soft tissue injuries and multiple fractures. Firefighters had to squeeze into the room and remove most of the debris by hand to get to Tian, who is from Chongqing city in southwestern China.
Rescue efforts are further complicated by the soil, which is masking the smell of potential survivors, making it hard for search dogs to find trapped people.
At least 90 people are missing in the disaster, which has been blamed on a pile of construction waste that built up for over two years.
The discovery took the confirmed death toll to two.
“As long as there is a sliver of hope, we will never give up”, Zhang said.
Wang Guoshe, head of the Guangdong fire department, said locating the tops of buried buildings was the current main task, so that signs of life could be found more accurately.
Many people accused officials of ignoring a construction waste dump near the industrial park that had reached a height of 100m before it collapsed, triggering the landslide.
The team, in charge of three expert panels focusing on land, work safety and disaster relief, is headed by Jiang Daming, Minister of Land and Resources.
Ten months of operations means hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of waste was dumped at the site, forming a huge mountain of soil, Xinhua quoted an official as saying.
The government has opened an official investigation into the incident, after it emerged that authorities had previously issued warnings about the mound.
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The city had “pointed out problems at the site and requested steps to correct them”, the announcement said.