Rescuers have found 10 bodies, but 31 people remain missing Monday following a landslide at the site of a hydropower project in southern China after days of heavy rain, authorities said. Fourteen people have been injured.
Rocks and mud with a volume of 100,000 cubic meters (3.5 million cubic feet) buried an office building and the construction workers’ living area at the site in mountainous Taining county in Fujian province early Sunday, according to the county’s Communist Party’s publicity department.
“We were asleep when the mountains began to jolt very strongly, and before we knew it, sand and mud were flowing into our room,” survivor Deng Chunwu told the official Xinhua News Agency. It said he and three other workers survived by huddling underneath a supporting pole.
Their room was pushed a distance of 10 meters (30 feet) by the flowing mud, Deng said.
The injured were receiving hospital treatment and in stable condition, Xinhua reported. State broadcaster China Central Television said the injuries included bone fractures.
More than 600 rescuers, including firefighters and police, were searching for the missing and attempting to clear sections of roads leading to the site, which had been made impassable by mudslides and flooding, hindering efforts to get heavy machinery through.
The site under construction is an extension of the Chitan hydropower station, an affiliate of state-owned Huadian Fuxin Energy Ltd., and was expected to begin operations in August 2017, Xinhua reported.
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