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Man found alive after more than 60 hours in China landslide
The man already extracted was 19-year-old Tian Zeming from the southern city of Chongqing, rescued early Wednesday morning.
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“The rescue work won’t slow”, said Yue Xi, another police officer at the scene, told Xinhua. A body of a man was discovered near Mr Tian, although it was not clear if that was the person to whom the survivor had referred.
Mr Tian was in a coherent state but his legs had been crushed, the official Xinhua news agency said, and was taken to the Guangming New District Central Hospital where he was in a stable condition. Lax safety practices in China, which has experienced a spate of deadly incidents including an August explosion at a warehouse in the city of Tianjin that killed more than 170, is among factors that have fueled public angst in China.
He was given oxygen and attached to an intravenous drip while rescuers removed the rubble around him by hand, a firefighting official told Xinhua.
The landslide happened Sunday when a mountain of construction waste material collapsed and flowed into an industrial park in Shenzhen.
Heavy rains saturated the soil, making it heavy and unstable, and ultimately causing it to collapse with massive force in and around an industrial park. It was the second major man-made disaster in China in four months.
Cranes dig through debris in search of missing people.
As of Tuesday morning, more than 4,000 rescuers have joined the rescue operations taking place across 16 locations where buildings had been buried.
Rescuers search for survivors… a collapsed building following the landslide.
While no waste is being brought to the Hengtaiyu industrial park now, dumping has also stopped at another controversial site in Shenzhen, in the district of Bujiuwo, which opened in 2008 and was due to close three years later.
Videos on China’s social media showed vast amounts of red mud pouring into the city with huge noise engulfing building after building.
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Heavy machinery continues to rake through the thousands of tonnes of soil and rubble that has swollen up factories and residential buildings, and even though the 72-hour golden period for saving lives has ended, rescuers have not lost hope.