A manmade mountain of dirt and industrial waste crashed into buildings in Shenzen, China after heavy rains soaked the ground. An explosion in August in the port city of Tianjin that killed almost 200 people was blamed on improperly stored chemicals. So far, the tally of missing people in the disaster has climbed to 91. Guangdong and Shenzhen officials are already at the site.
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Shenzhen, a mainland manufacturing hub near Hong Kong, has been aggressively building new housing estates, subway lines, and other projects.
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The Shenzhen government said 600 people had been relocated.
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“With the increasing size, the pile of waste formed an unstable body”, said Peng Weiping, a geologist in Guangdong Province.
“The wall of mud came down and hit us within minutes, it was so fast”, said Jiang Xuemin, 44, who lived and worked in the industrial park.
“Satellite photos from 1990 to 2015 show a very clear trend of mountain erosion”, an association spokesman said.
“Shenzhen is a modern city after all; ultimately its management standards are pretty high”. Both the entrance and exit of the dump area face the stricken industrial district, which includes housing for workers. Shenzhen lacks the capacity to accommodate all of the waste.
Locals told that hundreds of trucks carrying construction waste used to dump trash into the pile every day. Environmental impact assessments were likely skipped, they said.
A gas pipeline in the area exploded when the landslide hit, operator PetroChina was cited as saying by Xinhua news agency. “At one point the running mud was only ten meters away from me.”.
Wang, who worked in a factory near the site, said the power was suddenly cut off in her factory at midday Sunday and then she heard her colleagues shouting “Run quickly!”
Premier Li ordered central government officials to help Shenzhen authorities in the rescue and nearly 3,000 rescuers were at the scene with sniffer dogs and drones.
Shenzhen’s fire brigade said one building had collapsed but said the landslide had affected a large area on the northwestern outskirts of the city. 14 factories, 13 low rise buildings and three dormitories were among the buildings flattened.
In the Shenzhen incident, about 900 people were moved out of harm’s way before the landslide struck. “What’s going on there now?” the person wrote.
China has a poor industrial safety record, which has struggled to keep pace with the speed of the country’s economic growth.
A migrant worker by the name of He Weiming from the Henan Province, informed local media that many of his relatives were buried in the rubble caused by the landslide.
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The calamity has caused huge infrastructural damage, causing multi-storey buildings to topple and collapse.
