Landfill in Shenzhen Disaster Was Cited as Risk to Industrial Park

(Shenzhen) – A landfill in Shenzhen that environmental inspectors had warned could pose a threat to an industrial park where people lived and worked collapsed on December 20, covering the area with a river of mud that has left at least 91 missing.

Rescue workers were detecting signs of life from beneath the mud on December 21 and a fleet of excavators was trying to dig down to some of the 33 buried buildings to reach people who were trapped, said Yang Shengjun, director of the city's construction bureau.