He survived 67 hours buried under eight metres of rubble.
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19-year-old migrant worker Tian Zeming spent nearly 70 hours trapped under the mud before being found in the darkness of early morning.
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Officials said Wednesday that Tian was in an extremely weak condition when found in an excavated hole under the building’s roof, Agence France-Presse reported.
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The number was revised downward from 85 on Monday after several people believed to be missing were contacted.
The landslide occurred when a large, unstable mound of dumped earth and construction rubbish collapsed, the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources said.
Tian’s ankle was crushed in the rubble and hospital surgeons were operating to try to save his foot, Xinhua said.
Wang Guoshe, head of Guangdong fire department, said they were working to expose the buried buildings as soon as possible for precise detection of vital signs.
The landslide blanketed an area of about 380,000 sq m, the equivalent of about 50 football fields, with some areas being covered with up to 10m of mud, and rescue efforts involving thousands of people. Firefighters had to squeeze into the room and remove most of the debris by hand to get to Tian, who is from Chongqing city.
Meanwhile, police reportedly stormed the office of the Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development, the company handling the Shenzhen dumpsite and confiscated a computer and documents, and taken away its deputy head Yu Shengli.
“We never thought it could be unsafe”, the man said.
The government has pledged an investigation into the disaster, after documents posted on the city’s web site showed that authorities had issued repeated warnings about the problem.
CNN’s Matt Rivers and Yuli Yang reported from Shenzhen, Katie Hunt and Tiffany Ap wrote and reported from Hong Kong, Shen Lu reported from Beijing.
Shenzhen is a major manufacturing center, making everything from cellphones to cars, and it attracts workers from all parts of China.
Government controlled news media reported the District Government near the landslide site had reported safety concerns months before Sunday’s disaster.
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Locals told Xinhua that hundreds of trucks carrying construction waste used to dump trash into the pile every day. At least 160 people were killed when a chemical warehouse exploded in the northern port city of Tianjin in August.
