Survivor spent almost 70 hours buried in wreckage from Shenzhen landslide

A man has been pulled out of debris alive on Wednesday after a landslide hit an industrial park in China.

The 19-year-old was said to be in a critical condition after being rescued, reportedly having suffered from severe dehydration and a crushed leg.

Beijing, CHINA | AFP- One of the people found alive Wednesday in the aftermath of a landslide in southern China has died, the local fire department said.

While Tian was able to tell those who pulled him out that another survivor was nearby, he was pronounced dead by the doctors after being retrieved. Firefighters had to squeeze into the room and remove most of the debris by hand to get to Mr Tian, who is from Chongqing city in south-western China. More than 70 others remain missing.

Heavy rains then saturated the soil, causing it to collapse with massive force, the AP said.

Documents on the website of Guangming New District, where the landslide occurred, show that authorities were aware of problems with the storage and had urged action as early as July.

However, it later reported that rescuers found another body rather than a survivor. Flanked by police, reporters could observe military posts with computers and disease control stations set up for the rescue workers.

“The area used to be a rock field, the rocks were all dug out, which created a hollow pond, so they filled the pond with mud waste, all kinds of mud waste, which turned into a giant mountain”, Liu Huizhen, Hong’s aunt, told CNN. This was followed by a cruise ship capsize on the Yangtze River in June and huge explosions at a chemicals warehouse in Tianjin that killed over 170 people in August.

A building collapses in Shenzhen.

The landslide was the second major man-made disaster in China in four months.

Policemen stand guard as excavators dig the rubble during a search operation for potential survivors near a damaged buildings following a landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, in south China’s Guangdong province, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015.

Rescuers work their way through the ruined buildings.

As dozens of excavators and about 4,000 rescuers continued to claw through the cinnamon-coloured mud for victims, survivors recounted fleeing for their lives as a tsunami of earth and debris swept towards them.