19yo man pulled out alive after 60 hours buried under landslide rubble

A 19-year-old man has been pulled out alive after spending 60 hours trapped beneath a mountain of rubble from a landslide in southern China. Rao Liangzhong of the Shenzhen Emergency Response Office said Tian Zeming, from Chongqing in south-western China, was rescued at around dawn on Wednesday. More than 30 buildings were buried in an industrial district on Sunday, when a man-made mound of earth and debris collapsed after heavy rain. Seven people have been rescued so far, while diggers are combing through the rubble hunting for more. Seventy-six people are still missing.

The pile was too big, the pile was too steep, leading to instability and collapse.

Ministry of Land and Resources

Authorities said on Wednesday that he was found in an extremely weak condition in an excavated hole under the building’s roof. Doctors said he was severely dehydrated and had a crushed leg. Rescuers took about two hours to safely pull him out. Rescuers are using sniffer dogs and heat-seeking equipment in the search for more survivors. The man-made slag heap had been piled up by developers over the past two years.

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