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He Huifeng

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Rescuers dug out the first survivor of the Shenzhen landslide disaster early on Wednesday morning after three days of searching, state media reported.
The survivor, a man identified by the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily as migrant worker Tian Zeming, 19, from Chongqing, had been trapped for about 67 hours since Sunday morning’s disaster.
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He was conscious when he was pulled from the debris at 6.40am on Wednesday after initially being located by rescuers at about 3.30am, China Central Television reported.
Tian, who is now recovering in hospital, was among the list of 76 people that were reported missing following the disaster, which was released by the authorities on Tuesday.
The first dead body, identified only as being male, was recovered on Tuesday, but no further details were given.
This discovery came as the rescue command centre said there was no danger of a second disaster at the site, after workers from the China National Petroleum Corporation cleared natural gas in nearby pipelines overnight.
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Police also detained a vice-president of Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment and Development on Tuesday afternoon and took away the firm’s computers, China National Radio reported. The firm owns the operation and management rights of the construction-waste dumping site in Hongao village outside Guangming district.

At least 33 buildings were damaged by or buried under the landslide on Sunday that covered more than 380,000 square metres of land – the size of some 53 football pitches.
A Shenzhen government official yesterday said local community authorities were verifying residents’ identities.
The desperate families of other people still missing believe Tian’s rescue has offered some hope that other survivors will be found.
Zhou Suqing, 48, a migrant worker from Hunan, narrowly escaped the landslide, but her husband, Hu Wenhua, 49, was not so lucky.
She said she saw him being dragged down in the raging mudslide. “He was just behind me, but when I turned around to check on him, he was already buried under the mud.
“I know the exact spot where he was covered. I kept trying to tell everyone in charge about it, but no one would take my words seriously,” Zhou said.
The place where Tian was found was likely to be close to the place where her husband and a dozen of other people were buried alive, she said.
He was just behind me, but when I turned around ... he was already buried
Survivor Zhou Suqing, on her husband, one of the victims
Zhou and other relatives have urged the government to speed up its rescue efforts, but said they were now completely barred from getting close to the site of the landslide.
Yang Qingshan, whose aunt is still missing, said Tian’s rescue was a sign of hope for other people waiting for news.
The authorities needed to communicate closely with people that escaped the landslide, rather than blocking them from the area because they had first-hand information about where trapped people might be.

Rescue workers have continued their efforts to find survivors, identifying 16 critical digging zones as they used radar tools to scan for signs of life.
There were more than 4,000 rescuers on the ground on Tuesday – including some 2,100 armed police – as well as 190 excavators and 235 fire engines and ambulances.
The number of missing people was brought down to 76 from 85. Of them, 73 had been identified, most of them migrant workers from Henan, Hunan and other parts of Guangdong.

Survivors and victims’ families alike criticised what they saw as inadequate rescue efforts, even as relatives of those missing questioned why work was suspended from Monday 11pm until 4am on Tuesday despite the authorities’ promise that the efforts would go on through the night. The period is considered part of the “golden hours” for finding survivors.
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Some relatives said they had climbed over mounds of mud and rubble to get closer to the site of the landslide to see how the rescue work was progressing, only to find the excavators idle.
Some families were seen preparing a banner to push the local government to step up rescue efforts after their requests to retrieve their family members’ bodies went unanswered.

Attempts to post photos of the rescue efforts on mainland social media platforms such as Weibo were blocked, the families said.
Some relatives said they had dared not leave the site on Tuesday in case they were prevented from returning because of the heavy police presence in the area. “No one has told us where we can stay or where to get information and from whom,” one angry relative said.


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(151223) -- SHENZHEN, Dec. 23, 2015 (Xinhua) -- A survivor is found at the site of landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 23, 2015. One man was pulled out alive early Wednesday morning more than 60 hours after a landslide in Shenzhen.  (Xinhua/Liang Xu) (lfj)

Rescue workers use excavator to dig and search among the debris of destroyed buildings after a landslide hit an industrial park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. 22DEC15 SCMP/ Edward Wong

(151223) -- SHENZHEN, Dec. 23, 2015 (Xinhua) -- Tian Zeming, a survivor found in the landslide site, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 23, 2015.  Tian was pulled out alive early Wednesday morning more than 60 hours after a landslide in Shenzhen. (Xinhua/Sun Fei) (lfj)

(151223) -- SHENZHEN, Dec. 23, 2015 (Xinhua) -- A survivor is carried to an ambulance at the site of landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 23, 2015. One man was pulled out alive early Wednesday morning more than 60 hours after a landslide in Shenzhen.  (Xinhua/Liang Xu) (lfj)

(151223) -- SHENZHEN, Dec. 23, 2015 (Xinhua) -- A survivor is found at the site of landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 23, 2015. One man was pulled out alive early Wednesday morning more than 60 hours after a landslide in Shenzhen.  (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai) (lfj)

Rescue workers pull the survivor Tian Zeming from the debris early on Wednesday morning following Sunday’s landslide in Shenzhen. Photo: Xinhua

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