A trapped person is found dead at the site of landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 23, 2015. There was one survivor pulled out alive while the other found dead at the landslide site by far, but still 75 missing in the landslide. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)
A man was rescued early Wednesday morning, more than 60 hours after being buried by a landslide at an industrial park in the southern city of Shenzhen.
Tian Zeming, 21, from Chongqing, was spotted at 3:30 a.m. and pulled from the debris three hours later. He was immediately taken to Guangming New District Central Hospital.
Following surgery, Tian is in a stable condition. Another person who was trapped together with Tian, was dead when rescuers reached him.
Tian was one of 76 people reported missing in the incident, which occurred just before midday on Sunday when a huge pile of construction waste collapsed on Hengtaiyu industrial park in Guangming New District.
Rescuers squeezed into the narrow space where Tian was trapped and removed most of the debris by hand, said Zhang Yabin, a police officer at the scene. Tian was given oxygen and an intravenous infusion while still trapped in the debris.
The landslide covered an area of 380,000 square meters with 10 meters of silt, leaving 33 buildings buried or damaged. A nearby section of a major gas pipeline burst, cutting off the gas supply to neighboring Hong Kong.
NON-STOP RESCUE
Heavy machinery continues to work through the thousands of tonnes of soil and rubble, and even though the 72-hour golden period for saving lives has ended, rescuers have not lost hope.
More than 5,000 rescuers, including armed police and fire fighters, are involved, using excavators, bulldozers, cranes, drones, dogs and vital-signs detectors, said Zhang Hu, vice mayor of Shenzhen on Wednesday evening. Only four bodies have been recovered.
The thick, wet silt is causing great difficulties for rescuers in accurately locating the buried buildings, said Zhang. "We will do everything we can and mobilize all possible forces," said the official.
