{"id":1183,"date":"2015-12-21T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T15:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2015-12-21T17:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T15:38:22","slug":"waste-spill-buries-buildings-in-southern-china-85-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/1183","title":{"rendered":"Waste spill buries buildings in southern China, 85 missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"relatedInlineVideo\">\n<div class=\"article-video-inline\">\n<div id=\"article_video_player\" class=\"yospace-player-container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKh1ibrSmmg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKh1ibrSmmg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Waste spill buries buildings in southern China, 85 missing.At least 85 people were missing in China on Monday a day after a giant flow of mud and construction waste spewed out of an overfull dump in a boomtown and buried 33 buildings in its latest industrial disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The site should have been closed in February, but workers said mud and waste had continued to be dumped there, a news portal run by authorities in the southern city of Shenzhen said.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Li Keqiang ordered an investigation into Sunday&#8217;s landslide in the city, just across the border from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The mudslide smashed into multi-storey buildings at the Hengtaiyu industrial park in the Guangming New District, toppling them within seconds in collisions that sent rivers of earth skyward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mud had been building up for a few years,&#8221; said Han Bin, who lives by the site and witnessed the wall of mud sweep toward the buildings on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t realize this could happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The frequency of industrial accidents has raised questions about safety standards after three decades of breakneck growth in the world&#8217;s second-largest economy. Just four months ago, more than 160 people were killed in big chemical blasts in the northern port city of Tianjin.<\/p>\n<p>State television showed devastation in Shenzhen, with bits of broken buildings sticking up from heaps of mud stretching out over the industrial park.<\/p>\n<p>More than a year ago, a government-run newspaper warned Shenzhen would run out of space to dump waste from a building frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/12\/21\/china-landslide-idUSKBN0U30CW20151221\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waste spill buries buildings in southern China, 85 missing.At least 85 people were missing in China on Monday a day after a giant flow of mud and construction waste spewed out of an overfull dump in a boomtown and buried 33 buildings in its latest industrial disaster. The site should have been closed in February,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}