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Morning fog creates near zero conditions in some parts of the GTA
SHOWERS STAY: Beyond Christmas , we keep daily shower chances throughout the region on Saturday , Sunday , Monday, and Tuesday. At night, forecasters call for a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 7 p.m. under more clouds and a low around 65.
He was confirmed to be one of the 76 listed as officially missing after the disaster in Shenzhen, the Guangdong province fire department said on its official microblog. Shenzhen’s Vice-Mayor Liu Qingsheng told a press conference yesterday that 15 people had since been contacted and the missing consisted of 51 men and 25 women. He said the number had fallen as people initially unaccounted for had gradually turned up.
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A mountain of construction waste and mud collapsed in southern China, and more than 70 people are still missing.
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A statement by China’s land ministry Sunday blamed the tragedy on the collapse of a 100-meter tall mountain of construction waste and dirt stored at a nearby waste dump, which was weakened by heavy rainstorms in the region.
The landslide happened when a huge man-made mound of earth and construction waste collapsed, after heavy rains.
Documents on the website of Guangming New District, where the landslide occurred, show that authorities were aware of problems with the storage and had urged action as early as July.
One government report found the dump site to be unstable as early as January, and warned of a pending “catastrophe”.
Tian, who had started working for Dejicheng Fine Hardware Company on the industrial estate only about 10 days ago, is so far the first, perhaps only, survivor of the most deadly landslide to hit Shenzhen for decades.
The Journal reported that the amount of the debris in the slide has slowed rescue efforts and that excavators, dogs and portable scanners have been brought in to help in the search for survivors.
Rescue workers search for survivors in the aftermath of a landslide in Shenzhen in southern China’s Guangdong province Monday, Dec. 21, 2015.
The frequency of industrial accidents in China has raised questions about safety standards following three decades of breakneck growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
On Wednesday morning, the State Council, China’s cabinet, set up an investigation team to look into the landslide.
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Workers started to carefully drill holes into the mud and debris that had buried the building.
