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Massive waste landslide buries 85 people in China
Topic Started: Dec 22 2015, 12:12 AM (94 Views)
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Construction Waste Landslide Buries 85 in Shenzhen

As rescuers try to dig out possible survivors, media question why the dump was still active despite safety violations.

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By Shannon Tiezzi
December 22, 2015

A landslide in a southern Chinese city buried 33 buildings, leaving 85 people unaccounted for as of Monday evening, according to Xinhua. The incident occurred in an industrial park when construction waste spilled down a hill from a nearby dump site. According to Shenzhen’s deputy mayor, Liu Qingsheng, the landslide left 380,000 square meters buried under 10 meters of mud.

One survivor told Xinhua that the mud had come toward the factory where she was working “like sea waves.” “I felt I would have been engulfed in it if I were just one second late,” she said.

The government rushed rescue workers to Shenzhen’s Guangming New District, with just under 3,000 (including 800 members of China’s armed forces) on the scene by Monday. Despite those efforts, only seven people had been rescued nearly 36 hours after the landslide occurred at 11:30 AM local time on Sunday. One rescue worker acknowledged to Xinhua that the rescue operations were “extremely difficult,” with mud pouring in to fill up excavation sites.

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