Beijing : Hundreds of rescuers battling rain and low visibility today mounted a massive operation to locate nearly 100 people including 32 women who remained missing a day after a massive landslide struck an industrial estate in China’s manufacturing hub of Shenzen.
In what is being termed as one of China’s worst urban disasters, a huge man-made mound of earth and construction debris lost stability and collapsed yesterday, burying 33 buildings and triggering an explosion at a gas station in an industrial park in the southern city of Shenzhen.
Rescuers sifted through hundreds of tonnes of mud from a crumbling mountain and debris from the buildings in one of China’s most developed cities, bordering Hong Kong. Authorities mounted a massive rescue operation battling bad weather and low visibility, with 78 excavators and 1,200 rescuers added to the operation searching for the 91 people missing that includes 32 women, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
