Seventy-six people were reported missing in the incident, which occurred just before midday on Sunday, when a huge pile of construction waste collapsed on Hengtaiyu industrial park in Guangming New District.
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Tian Zeming, 21, a native of the southwestern municipality of Chongqing, was pulled from the debris around 6:30 AM local time and rushed to hospital.
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“We stopped because of the landslide”, said a Bujiuwo waste collection site worker, who gave his family name as Huang.
The landslide has also affected more than 4,600 workers in 90 factories and workshops, including 34 plants which were buried or damaged by mud and waste.
Among the 75 people still listed as missing, 50 are men and 25 are women, Shenzhen Vice Mayor Liu Qingsheng said on Tuesday.
According to the official Xinhua news agency, Tian was in a stable condition and doctors were trying to save one of his feet, which had been stuck in the debris.
The landslide covered 380,000 square meters with residue soil of 10 meters deep, damaging a section of the second West-to-East natural gas pipeline, partially cutting off the natural gas supply to Hong Kong.
State media reported that a man from Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment and Development, which operates the site struck by the disaster, has been taken away by the police. In August, 160 people were killed by a large chemical blast in the northern city of Tianjin.
“He told the soldiers who rescued him, there is another survivor close by”, Xinhua said.
Zhang Hu, vice major of Shenzhen, told reporters that more than 5,000 rescue workers are at the scene.
“The pile was too big, the pile was too steep, leading to instability and collapse”, the Ministry of Land and Resources said, according to BBC.
State media reported that the New Guangming District government had identified problems with the mountain of soil months earlier.
He was first located buried underground by fireman using three separate life detectors at about 3:30am on Wednesday, said Zhou Qiang, the official in charge of the rescue efforts.
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On Wednesday morning, the State Council, China’s cabinet, set up an investigation team to look into the landslide. “Answers to these questions are inescapably linked with the economics of waste treatment”, the newspaper said.
