Door panel saves man buried 67 hours in China landslide

Rescue workers have pulled a survivor from the rubble of the devastating landslide in Shenzhen, China.

A 19-year-old survivor receives temporary medical treatment after being found under a collapsed building by rescuers at the site of a landslide which hit an industrial park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on Wednesday.

RESCUERS scrabbling through the debris of Sunday’s huge landslide in Shenzhen yesterday discovered a young man alive in the mud.

In November, prices of new homes contracted in 49 of the 70 cities included in the main official survey of the market, data released on Friday showed.

The landslide occurred when a man-made mountain of earth and construction waste collapsed following heavy rains. He said the teenager was in stable condition and had undergone surgery at the Guangming New District Central Hospital.

The government issued a second warning in September, noting that the dump’s permit to receive waste had expired and authorities had made it clear that dumping should cease.

“We never thought it could be unsafe”, the man said. Another person, whom rescuers pulled out alive along with Tian, was later pronounced dead.

Local official Zhang Yabin, said more than 5,000 workers, including police and firefighters are using dogs, drones, and machinery to search for survivors.

On Tuesday police raided the offices of site manager Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development.

The Legal Evening News said a district government report in January found that the dump had received one million cubic metres of waste and warned of a “catastrophe”.

Under pressure from the media, officials allowed about 30 journalists, mostly from foreign outlets, to approach an edge of the disaster area.

The cause of the landslide has raised questions about safety standards in China, following three decades of breakneck economic growth. However, there is no explanation as how so much mud has engulfed the area.

This is China’s fourth major disaster in a year, beginning with a deadly stampede in Shanghai on New Year’s Eve, followed by a cruise ship capsize on the Yangtze River and massive explosions at a chemicals warehouse in Tianjin that killed more than 170 people.

Heavy machinery continues to rake through the thousands of tonnes of soil and rubble that has swollen up factories and residential buildings even though the 72-hour golden period for saving lives has ended.