But medical and rescue staff who went down into the rubble found the second person had not survived. The second person later succumbed to their injuries.
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The male survivor, Tian Zemin, 19, was pulled from debris, about 67 hours after the landslide. It said he had been trying to get out of his room when the building collapsed, and the door panel created a space for him to survive. He had surgery Wednesday and is now resting in stable condition.
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There was grim news too, however.
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The BBC reported that at least four bodies had been recovered by Wednesday afternoon. Very few people trapped by the slide were rescued up to a day later, reports said.
The landslide eventually blanketed a vast area of 380,000 sq m (455,000 sq yards) – the equivalent of about 50 football fields.
Emergency workers are racing around the clock to find any survivors in the disaster, which occurred when a large river of mud swept over the park and either destroyed or damaged 33 buildings, including 14 factories and three dormitories.
The latest in a series of fatal accidents in the world’s most populous country, the tragedy in Shenzhen came only months after nearly 200 people died in a massive chemical blast in the port city of Tianjin.
The 21-year-old from southwest China’s Chongqing City used a rock to tap on debris to try to attract the attention of those looking for any signs of life amid the sea of mud.
Over 30 buildings at Hengtaiyu, Liuxi and Dejicheng industrial parks, are buried by excavated soil and construction waste, which are over 10 meters thick.
Hundreds of doctors, nurses, and psychologists have been sent to nine temporary settlements near the landslide site and a psychological crisis intervention panel will offer counselling and comfort to the injured and families of the missing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
So far, they’re nowhere to be found.
He found himself buried eight metres below the surface, alongside a workmate, after the landslide, but the workmate died before rescuers found them. “We will do everything we can and mobilize all possible forces”, said the official. The team will be headed by the minister of land resources.
A total of 1,817 disaster-affected people have been evacuated.
What exactly caused the landslide isn’t clear.
(Yin Gang/Xinhua News Agency via AP). However, there is no explanation as how so much mud has engulfed the area.
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Residents had also repeatedly complained about noise and dust coming from the waste dump, local media reported.
