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Questions mount over failure to prevent China mudslide
State media news agency Xinhua are reporting the 19-year-old survivor was found at 3:30pm on Wednesday (local time) under a collapsed building as is now receiving medical treatment.
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Hospital boss Wang Guangming said Tian was in stable condition, but extremely weak, dehydrated and with several soft tissue injuries and multiple fractures, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
Authorities overseeing rescue efforts at a landslide in Shenzhen lowered the number of missing people yesterday, but anger from relatives mounted over a halt in rescue efforts early yesterday morning and reports that authorities did little to prevent the illegal dumping that led to the disaster.
When they found him, Tian told rescuers his name and that there was another person buried near him, according to the transcript.
Firefighters had to squeeze into a narrow room around Tian and pull debris out by hand, rescuer Zhang Yabin told Xinhua. At least 160 people were killed in massive chemical blasts in the northern port city of Tianjin in August.
Hopes for those still missing in the mud were fading Tuesday, even as heavy machinery raked through thousands of tons of soil and rubble that buried factories and residential buildings. A body discovered the same morning remained the first and only confirmed death.
Shenzhen is a major manufacturing center, making everything from cellphones to cars, and it attracts workers from all parts of China. With growing worries about China’s industrial safety standards, Premier Li Keqiang ordered an investigation within hours into the incident.
Unsafe levels of highly toxic pollutants were detected at the site as rescue workers fanned out to pull out survivors – and later lifeless bodies – from under the debris.
Rescuers search for potential survivors near damaged buildings following a landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, in south China’s Guangdong province, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015.
“We heard a sound like an explosion and then all we saw was smoke”, said the man, who gave only his surname, Dong.
More than 70 people are still missing from the landslide.
“Dozens of people were trying to run away from the mud, some were lucky enough to be pushed out by the impact of the landslide, but others were buried under the mud”, she said.
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In addition, public organizations, the Red Cross Society of China and NGOs joined the rescue and assistance work at the landslide site.