[QUOTE]Hundreds of rescue workers are looking for survivors after a landslide hit 33 buildings in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
Seven people were pulled from the rubble with minor injuries but 91 are still missing. About 900 were evacuated as the landslide struck on Sunday.
Authorities said a huge man-made mound of earth and construction debris lost stability and collapsed.
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[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35148909[/url]
Government is most likely underreporting the amount of casualties and missing. Sad stuff..
The fucking photo they showed of the damage path is fucked.
The company responsible for those construction debris was officially given approval for the site in 2015, but newspaper have been reporting about their somewhat illegal work in 2014, and the locals have been reporting about it a few years before.
Meanwhile, The company refuse to take any responsibility for this disaster and claims that they're the victims as they had contracted the job out to another company in 2013 already, which means another company bought the rights to work on this site from them 2 years before they were officially given a go on this job.
[QUOTE=jason3232;49361070]The company responsible for those construction debris was officially given approval for the site in 2015, but newspaper have been reporting about their somewhat illegal work in 2014, and the locals have been reporting about it a few years before.
Meanwhile, The company refuse to take any responsibility for this disaster and claims that they're the victims as they had contracted the job out to another company in 2013 already, which means another company bought the rights to work on this site from them 2 years before they were officially given a go on this job.[/QUOTE]
So in other words, typical Chinese construction practices and government corruption. Nothing new at all.
[quote="MIPS"]The fucking photo they showed of the damage path is fucked.[/quote]
[img]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12E6E/production/_87322477_china_landslide_624.jpg[/img]
That is an absurd amount of fill.
whats sad is that the US and the west learned how to prevent all this decades ago and we're glad to share what we have learned with the these countries but they don't particularly care
[QUOTE=Sableye;49362163]whats sad is that the US and the west learned how to prevent all this decades ago and we're glad to share what we have learned with the these countries but they don't particularly care[/QUOTE]
Accident prevention is expensive, just like pollution prevention.
Earthquakes? Landslides? Terrorist attacks?
Clearly, the Chinese government has lost the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven"]Mandate of Heaven[/URL].
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;49362518]Earthquakes? Landslides? Terrorist attacks?
Clearly, the Chinese government has lost the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven"]Mandate of Heaven[/URL].[/QUOTE]
Well they're not exactly ruled by a monarchy anymore.
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