Over 90 missing after landslide China

Over 90 missing after landslide China

World December 21, 2015 08:49

shenzen - Rescue workers after a landslide in the southern Chinese city of Shenzen still looking for 91 people. Almost three thousand rescuers search according to state media with drones and sniffer dogs for survivors.

The landslide caused enormous damage. On images we see how buildings collapse at an industrial complex. Surely 33 houses were buried by a mudslide, including factories and dormitories.

A witness told state news agency Xinhua how people fleeing beat when the mud huge waves approached. According to the deputy mayor of Shenzen mummy covers an area of ​​380 000 square meters. The mud would in some places ten meters deep.

According to the authorities after work too much mud accumulated in the vicinity of the complex. Thus, according to the government is a unstable situation arise, with the collapse of buildings as a result. So far, fourteen people would be saved. More than nine hundred people were evacuated.

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