A man was rescued Wednesday almost three days after being buried by a landslide that swept through an industrial park in the southern city of Shenzhen on Sunday, Chinese media said. A building in an industrial park in southern China gave way during the landslide on Sunday.
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Nearly 72 hours after being buried alive by a tide of earth and rubble, 19-year-old Tian Zeming was pulled from the soil by emergency workers who have been battling around the clock in the search for survivors.
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“It’s usually very busy here”, he said, adding that hundreds of trucks usually come and go every day.
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Among the 75 people still listed as missing, 50 are men and 25 are women, Shenzhen Vice Mayor Liu Qingsheng said on Tuesday.
Xinhua reported that rescuers talked to Tian to keep him conscious.
Firefighters had to squeeze into the narrow room around Tian and remove the debris by hands, said Zhang Yabin, an armed police participating in the rescue.
The force of the landslide destroyed 33 buildings in its path. Initially, there were over 90 people that were reported missing.
Tian Zeming, who was found at 3:30 a.m. (1930 GMT Tuesday), was in a coherent state but his legs had been crushed, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Tian was taken to the Guangming New District Central Hospital, where he was said to be in a stable condition.
While the problem is more acute for Shenzhen, which has limited land compared to Beijing or Shanghai, construction waste is a problem for all of China, noted Professor Yuan Hongping of Southwest Jiaotong University who does research in waste disposal methods.
According to the official Xinhua news service, Xing Feng, a civil engineering professor from Shenzhen University, had previously cautioned that China’s quantity of construction debris has grown rapidly in the past two decades, averaging at one ton per person, with the country’s disposal management mechanism lagging far behind.
Wang Guoshe, head of the Guangdong fire department, said locating the tops of buried buildings was the current main task, so that signs of life could be found more accurately.
Rescuers have been hard at work, with over 900 residents evacuated, and 1,500 firemen, police officers and health workers dispatched to the area.
Shenzhen is a major manufacturing center, making everything from cellphones to cars, and it attracts workers from all parts of China.
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One government report found the dump site to be unstable as early as January, and warned of a pending “catastrophe”.
