91 missing in China’s mountain excavation landslide

AP December 22,2015 - 09:51 AM

Rescue workers search for survivors in the aftermath of a landslide in Shenzhen in southern China’s Guangdong province in this photo taken from a drone-mounted camera. (AP PHOTO)

Rescue workers search for survivors in the aftermath of a landslide in Shenzhen in southern China’s Guangdong province in this photo taken from a drone-mounted camera. (AP PHOTO)

SHENZHEN, China — Rescuers were searching Monday for at least 91 missing people a day after a mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

China’s official Xinhua News Agency said the landslide buried or damaged 33 buildings in the industrial park in Shenzhen, a major manufacturing center in Guangdong province across the border from Hong Kong that makes products used around the world ranging from cellphones to cars.

Aerial photos on the microblog of the Public Security Ministry’s Firefighting Bureau showed the area awash in a sea of red mud, with several buildings either knocked on their side or collapsed entirely.

Posts on the microblog said mud had thoroughly infused many of the buildings, leaving the “room of survival extremely small.”

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