China landslide: 91 missing in Shenzhen after pile of construction waste collapses

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

The number of people missing after a landslide in southern China has almost doubled to 91, after a huge mound of construction waste collapsed and buried 33 buildings in China’s latest industrial disaster.

Premier Li Keqiang ordered an official investigation into the disaster in the southern city of Shenzhen, which comes four months after huge chemical blasts at the northern port of Tianjin killed more than 160 people.

A wall of mud smashed into multi-storey buildings at the Hengtaiyu industrial park in the city’s north-western Guangming New District on Sunday morning.

The landslide was caused by the build-up of waste construction mud in the vicinity, the Ministry of Land and Resources said in a post on its official Weibo account.


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/21/china-landslide-dozens-missing-shenzhen-construction-waste-collapses

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They had started an evacuation before it hit, but that now sounds like they didn't have enough time to find everyone.

[beam me up scottie]

1. I just saw the video from this, how horrible.

Another tragedy for that city.

[hunter]

2. Reminiscent of the 2015 Tianjin port explosions...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions

And still people complain about government regulations.

It seems free markets don't worry about blowing people up, burying them under mud, crushing them under collapsing buildings, or poisoning their air and water.

I remember when economists predicting China would learn from the mistakes we made in the industrial west and avoid them.

Obviously they did not.

[xocet]

4. Regulations - What are they good for?

They are just the government interfering with the invisible hand of the free market.

[PatrynXX]

3. where usually our hard drives are made

nuts. speaking of too big to fail just about everything comes from that City

[diane in sf]

5. China does not have an effective, stable legal structure for regulating anything.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. omg. the video

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. China landslide: Man rescued alive in Shenzhen after 67 hours

A man buried in rubble for almost three days after a landslide hit an area of Shenzhen in China, has been pulled out alive.
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Three bodies have so far reportedly been recovered. More than 70 people are still missing.
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The 19-year-old survivor was found around 04:00 local time on Wednesday (20:00 GMT Tuesday), after being buried for 67 hours. He has been named as Tian Zeming, a migrant worker from Chongqing in south-western China.

Authorities said on Wednesday that he was found in an extremely weak condition in an excavated hole under the building's roof. Doctors said he was severely dehydrated and had a crushed leg. Rescuers took about two hours to safely pull him out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35166123