mon 21 feb 2015, 11:33

Shenzhen was warned

Our editors abroad

Amsterdam –

The mudslide on Sunday, parts of the Southern Chinese city of Shenzhen has been buried alive, was more than a year in advance announced.

With a primal force where even this block of flats, not against the file was the mud and the debris to get to Shenzen brindle.

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AFP

The search for survivors is becoming increasingly desperate. Almost a hundred people are still missing.

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AP

Dozens of buildings are buried under the rubble.

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AP

The Shenzhen Evening Post, a local overheidskrant, quoted in October 2014, though an official who was concerned about the growing garbage dumps around the city. “We have twelve landfill and the end of 2015 are full,” says the policy maker who at the time argued that the ‘increasingly difficult problem,” his highest priority.

Sunday were 33 buildings hit by an avalanche of mud and rubble. Almost a hundred people have been missing.

Growth area

Shenzhen, a former fishing village that is right next to hong Kong, was thirty years ago Beijing was designated as ’growth area’. New neighborhoods in record time from the ground up, and in addition, is almost 200 km (!) to new subway lines laid out. All of the soil that is moved in excess of the already considerable vuilnisbergen. That were too high and too steep, and the ministry of Land use already been declared. “The hope was has become unstable and is therefore collapsed.”

Earth scientists fear that the disaster in Shenzhen’t be the last. “That city is still fairly modern, and the board is there in order”, says an expert at news agency Reuters. “If even Shenzhen, with this kind of problems it faces, it is not excluded that other cities of this type of risk to know.”

Local media have in the last few years has already been repeatedly warned for the dangers of the towering waste dumps around Shenzhen. The city council has not yet on the most recent posts responded to.