A former official of an urban management bureau in a southern Chinese city where a landslide of construction waste left 75 people missing more than a week ago has jumped from a building in an apparent suicide. The landslide occurred last Monday after a dump of construction waste, managed by Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development, swept across an industrial park.
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The former director of the Guangming New District Urban Management Bureau, a man surnamed Xu, had committed suicide, district police said in a microblog post, adding that police had received a report that a person had fallen from a building late on Sunday.
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It is not immediately known whether Xu had been put under investigation for the landslide, which hit 33 buildings in the Hengtaiyu industrial zone in the southern Chinese city on December 20, when a huge pile of construction waste collapsed.
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The head of an urban enforcement agency in Shenzhen has killed himself, authorities said.
Last week, officials raided the company’s offices in Shenzhen, Reuters reported.
Police officers exclusively identified him by his family name Xu still Caixin, an influential monetary magazine identified the official as Xu Yuan’an.
Police and state media have not said whether Xu had been directly responsible for authorizing the dump.
The government posted a statement on its website on Friday, warning those responsible for the man-made disaster would be “seriously punished in accordance with the law”.
Xu was among the officials who approved the landfill project, according to a report by the Shenzhen Special District newspaper that was later deleted.
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Despite the threat of prison time over major industrial accidents, a lack of regulatory oversight and cost-cutting by management often lead to disasters.
