mon 21 dec 2015, 07:44

More than 90 missing after landslide in China

SHENZEN –

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

In this photo made by a camera-equipped drone is good to see what the size is of the landslide in Shenzhen.
Photo: AP

From the air, is the enormous havoc that was created by the aardeverschuiving good to see.
Photo: AP

The landslide caused a huge havoc. On images is to see how buildings in an industrial complex to collapse. Certainly 33 buildings would be buried by a mudflow, including factories and slaapgebouwen.

A witness told state news agency Xinhua how the people on the flight clapped when the mud in the “huge waves” was approaching. According to the vice-mayor of Shenzen covers the heap is an area of 380,000 square meters. The mud would, in some places ten feet deep.

According to the authorities, after work, a lot of mud accumulated in the vicinity of the complex. Therefore, according to the government an “unstable” situation, with the collapse of buildings as a result. So far would be fourteen people have been rescued. More than nine hundred persons were evacuated.