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One Survivor Found, Dozens Still Missing In China Landslide
A teenager who was buried alive in a landslide in south China has been pulled out by rescuers after surviving for three days on melon seeds and grapefruit.
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Nearly 3,000 rescuers were at the scene, Xinhua said, with sniffer dogs and drones.
Rescuers took two hours to pull Mr Zeming from the mud, and fear more than 70 people could still be engulfed in rubble as deep as 10 metres in some parts. 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.
Premier Li Keqiang ordered an official investigation into Sunday’s landslide in Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong.
A giant deluge of mud and construction waste from the overfull dump site buried 33 buildings at the industrial park on Sunday (Monday, NZT).
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.
“The pile was too big, the pile was too steep, leading to instability and collapse”, the Ministry of Land and Resources said, according to BBC.
A local source familiar with the situation said operations like the construction waste dump usually run on the basis of government guanxi (connections).
Local resident Yi Jimin agreed the disaster was not an act of nature.
“The officials, the companies, the truck drivers, they were all here, they saw what was happening”, Liang said. “Shenzhen has 12 waste sites and they can only hold out until next year”, the official Shenzhen Evening Post, published by the city government, said in October, 2014.
“As long as there is a sliver of hope, we will never give up”, he said.
“I know from previous cases that I have been involved in that there are a huge number of companies in Shenzhen that make a living out of winning contract tenders and then subcontracting them to other companies”, the source said.
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The damaged buildings included 14 factories, two office buildings, one cafeteria, three dormitories and 13 sheds or workshops, Shenzhen Deputy Mayor Liu Qingsheng told a news conference. “Among the 76, 73 people’s identities have been verified”, said Qingsheng.