Mudslides: 19 yr-old survives 60 hrs under rubble

Rescuers at the site of the Shenzhen disaster made a big breakthrough when they rescued a 19 year-old man from under the rubble caused by a disastrous landslide in China.
The young man survived 60 hours of excruciating pain and despair before he was pulled out of the wreckage after the disaster which has left scores of people still missing.
The rescue of Tian Zeming had raised the morale of the thousands-strong team of rescuers as they race against time to save more lives after the landslide.

Read also: China: Mudslide buries 33 houses, 91 people missing

According to the official Xinhua news agency, Tian was in a stable condition and doctors were trying to save one of his feet, which had been stuck in the debris.
Tian told rescuers another survivor may have been close to where he had been trapped, but officials later said that person was found dead.

The landslide disaster happened after heavy rain in the area, with mud and waste surging into multi-storey buildings at the
Hengtaiyu industrial park in the city’s northwestern Guangming New District, toppling them in collisions that sent rivers of earth skyward.
More than 70 people were still missing on Wednesday, with only a handful of bodies found so far.

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