At least 14 individuals have been killed and three others injured in a landslide at a building web site in southwestern China. This info was given within the official report on Tuesday.
The explanation for the landslide in Biji metropolis of Guizhou province on Monday night is being investigated, the report mentioned.
Workers had been constructing a coaching facility for a hospital on the time of the landslide. The mountainous, inland Guizhou is one in every of China’s least developed areas.
More than 1,000 individuals joined the in a single day rescue effort, Xinhua information company mentioned.
Rescue staff search the positioning of a landslide in Biji, southwest China’s Guizhou province, Tuesday, January 4, 2022. (AP)
Workplace accidents are a recurring drawback in China because of managers reducing corners, lax enforcement of security requirements and decaying infrastructure.
One of China’s deadliest accidents was the horrific 2015 explosion at a chemical warehouse within the port metropolis of Tianjin, which killed 173 individuals, most of them firefighters and cops.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
