Slip in China: people who slipped through just 10 minutes

 

More than 80 people still missing

AP PHOTO / ASSOCIATED PRESS / ESTADÃO CONTENT
 

More than 80 people are still missing after the landslide that hit 33 buildings in the city of Shenzhen in southern China. Another 900 were evacuated, and the survivors told their stories to local media.

 

See some of them here:
Employers who saved the lives of 115 workers
Owns a factory in the region, Huang Yongqing was at the center of Shenzhen on Sunday morning when he received a call that caused panic.
Was a manager describing the intense tremors on site. "The moment I got the call, all I could say was: '! Evacuate everywhere,'" he told the newspaper Jingbao.
Ten minutes later, a vast land slip wave arrived at Huang technology works by breaking some of the walls and invading the site.
Fortunately, by then, all 115 employees who were there had fled.
The administrative manager Yan Limin led the staff of the withdrawal process by organizing their output and by counting all until they were safe.
She told another local newspaper: "The building started shaking a lot. We thought it was an earthquake. "
The 36-year-old man and his younger brother seek their missing relatives, including his parents, wives and children, the younger sister and five friends.

Earlier on Sunday, the two brothers had left the house where they lived - that was more or less 1km away from where there was the slip - and that's what saved them.

"We were collecting garbage at 7:40 a.m. and everything was normal at home. When we returned at 11:40 am, our house was buried under a pile of mud. It was a metal structure of four meters, but we could not even see the roof, "said He to the Global Times.

"I've done more than 40 connections, but I could not talk to anyone. At first it was because no one answered. Now is because cell appear to be off, "he added.