China landslide buries buildings 27 Missing people

China landslide buries buildings

A landslide swept through an industrial area in the south of China, toppling buildings and flooded the region in the mud, leaving dozens of people missing, said state media, Beijing.
Collapse that hit Shenzhen City shortly before noon Sunday, and was buried or toppled 33 buildings in the industrial area Hengtaiyu said official media, quoting local authorities. It was not clear what caused the landslide.

At least seven people were rescued after 18 buildings were buried and an area of 20,000 square meters was covered with soil, the Ministry of Public Security's firefighting bureau said in an online statement.

 State television said China Central Television also an explosion on a nearby piece of pipe-border transit of natural gas between the West and the East line.
The news agency said the official New China, rescuers are searching for at least 59 people believed to be missing until late on Sunday, while 14 people have been rescued so far. Three of the damaged buildings, Xinhua said, and the workers' housing.

The footage showed a broadcast on state media rescue workers who are working under a light rain as they searched for survivors in and around the buildings toppled by vast areas of the structure which appears to be flowed from the nearby hills soil.
The official media, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang both ordered local authorities to step up efforts to rescue and prevent more casualties survivors.

 

Xinhua residents said that landslides stems from the artificial hill was created over the past two years from the dumping of excavated soil from nearby construction sites. Xinhua said Shenzhen, a manufacturing center in Guangdong Province, has not seen a large heavy rains in recent days, in spite of the presence of light rain Sunday morning.
Rapid urbanization along with lax application of zoning to other incidents in major cities Systems has contributed. In the northeast of the city of Tianjin in the warehouse explosion killed 173 people in August. The government said was located in a warehouse of hazardous materials too close to neighboring apartments in violation of the regulations.

Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, is one of the most prosperous cities in China, having been built to a large extent over the past 35 years. The incident took place in Guangming New District in the city, and new industrial and residential zone established in 2007 and is home to about one million people, according to the provincial government site.
Landslides covered an area of ​​about 20,000 square meters under the mud, according to the Ministry of Public Security Bureau for fire-fighting.