According to the firefighting division of Guangdong Public Security Bureau, as of Sunday evening local time, 11 firefighting teams are participating in the search and rescue of victims trapped after the Shenzhen landslide.
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The landslide consisted of piled-up construction waste and soil, the Chinese newspaper People’s Daily said, citing the Ministry of Land and Resources. It’s the first reported death from the disaster.
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Details are beginning to emerge about the cause of the landslide, which authorities say covered an area of 100,000 square meters (1 million square feet) with up to 6 meters (20 feet) of mud. Aerial photographs showed a sea of reddish-brown muck rising several stories along a series of buildings, some partly collapsed.
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Heavy rains in the region had saturated the soil, making it increasingly unstable and ultimately causing it to collapse with massive force.
Seven people had been rescued and more than 900 evacuated, the state-run China Central Television reported.
Posts on the microblog said the mud had filled numerous buildings, adding the chances of survival were “extremely small”. Videos show buildings crumbling to the ground as the landslide rakes through them. Dormitories were reportedly among the buildings which collapsed. “We didn’t realise this could happen”.
Hundreds of anxious residents gathered near the scene of the disaster to watch the round-the-clock rescue operations involving more than 2,000 people and 150 construction vehicles.
The initial landslide also sparked an explosion in a PetroChina natural gas pipeline. At least 13 persons are being treated for injuries in hospitals. By Monday morning, the fire was extinguished and a temporary section of pipe was being laid.
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The frequency of industrial accidents has raised questions about safety standards after three decades of breakneck growth in the world’s second-largest economy. A four-day smog red-alert continued Monday in Beijing.
