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Rescuers race against time after China landslide leaves 85 missing

Published Mon, Dec 21, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Shenzhen

RESCUERS raced late on Monday to try to save victims of a huge China landslide which left 85 people missing after signs of life were detected under a sea of mud, state media said.

The landslide caused by the collapse of a vast soil dumpsite buried 33 factory and residential buildings in the southern city of Shenzhen, China's second industrial disaster in four months.

Rescuers using cutting gear were close on Monday evening to reaching the first floor of a buried office…

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