Tian Zeming became the first confirmed survivor to be rescued from the industrial park on the outskirts of Shenzhen, one of China’s richest cities, after a massive pile of mud and building waste crashed into the disaster site on Sunday.
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“The rescue work won’t slow”, said Yue Xi, another police officer at the scene, told Xinhua.
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A second survivor, 19-year old Tian Zeming was in a stable condition at a local hospital, according to the fire department, who had pulled him from the earth early Wednesday morning.
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Residents have said raised questions about why officials didn’t act to stop the growing mountain of construction waste, which they said they had feared was unsafe. Firefighters had to squeeze into the narrow space around him and remove the debris trapping him with their hands, Xinhua reported. Before Mr Tian’s discovery, authorities had revised the number of those still missing to 76 from 85 after contacting people previously unaccounted for, the news agency reported.
Tian’s ankle was crushed in the rubble and hospital surgeons were operating to try to save his foot, Xinhua said.
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.
Heavy rains then saturated the soil, causing it to collapse with massive force, the AP said.
He said he had been lucky that food, including sunflower seeds and grapefruit, fell into the hole with him after a huge avalanche of mud and rubble crashed into at least 33 buildings at an industrial park in the city.
Authorities blamed an enormous, man-made mountain of soil and waste for the collapse of almost three dozen buildings in southern China’s most prominent manufacturing city.
More bodies are likely to be recovered in the coming days, and officials in Shenzhen appeared prepared to blunt public ire by moving against the company that operated the site.
Rescuers stand near damaged buildings as they search for potential survivors following a landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, in south China’s Guangdong province, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015.
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“We heard a sound like an explosion and then all we saw was smoke”, said the man, who gave only his surname, Dong.
