76 still missing after Shenzhen landslide
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THE number of people missing after a massive landslide in south China’s Shenzhen has dropped to 76, with some of those previously reported missing having been contacted, authorities said yesterday.
Previously, the number of missing was reported to be 91, but 15 have since been in touch, according to Liu Qingsheng, vice mayor of the city in Guangdong Province.
Those who remain missing are 50 males and 26 females.
More than 4,000 rescue workers had joined rescue efforts as of yesterday morning, he added.
Sixteen locations where buildings were buried have been listed as key excavation areas, Liu said.
A list of the names of those missing was made public yesterday. The majority come from Guangdong and central China’s Henan and Hunan provinces.
The body of a male victim was retrieved from the debris early yesterday. “We detected vital signs several times, but our utmost efforts were in vain,” said firefighter Yao Yingzheng. “We felt disheartened when doctors pronounced him dead,” he said.
The landslide hit an industrial park around 11:40am on Sunday when a huge pile of construction waste collapsed and buried or damaged 33 buildings.
Some 900 people were evacuated. Sixteen people were hospitalized, all with minor injuries.
Police have detained an executive of a company managing the dump site, according to Beijing Youth Daily. It published a photo of a middle-aged man sitting beside a police officer in a car and said he was the company’s deputy general manager.
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