A teenager has been rescued from the rubble caused by a landslide in China's south nearly three days earlier.
The 19-year-old is in a stable condition in hospital after the landslide that engulfed more than 30 buildings at an industrial park in the city of Shenzhen.
Van Nguyen has more.
The tragedy happened near the border with Hong Kong when a huge man-made mound of earth and construction waste collapsed after heavy rains.
It covered an area of around 380,000 square metres with 10 metre deep mud.
19-year-old migrant worker Tian Zeming spent almost 70 hours trapped under the mud before being found in the darkness of early morning.
The country's official Xinhua news agency reports he was in a coherent state but his legs had been crushed.
Rescue workers spent nearly three hours removing rubble by hand to free Mr Zeming.
He was then transferred to a hospital and underwent surgery for his injuries.
The president of Central Hospital in Guangming New District, Wang Guangming, says the teenager's relative youth may have helped him survive.
(Translated)"After such a long time, and dozens of houses (falling over in the landslide), it's lucky for him to have such vital signs, as he is quite young."
Tian Zeming is believed to found an air pocket, enabling him to survive.
Local resident Zhang Huanting says he cannot believe it.
(Translated) "It's a miracle a man was rescued alive. We were very happy when we heard about it and that he was still alive after being trapped for dozens of hours."
Soldier He Yong described the rescue.
(Translated) "We found the survivor around 2 to 3 a.m., and I didn't remember how long did it take us to rescue him as I was operating the rescue working under the debris. The secondary disaster, hard debris and other hard rescue tools may have hurt Tian and bring him injuries again, so I gave my helmet to him."
The number of missing people continues to be revised down as people thought to have been buried contact authorities or are located.
Rescue director Dong Hanming has praised the work of rescue workers.
(Translated) "Our resources command continued in the day and night rescue work according to the grid style and accurate rescuing arrangements in the Shenzhen landslide accident and dug 15 metres deep in two rescue sites. We found two buried roofs, and we found a survivor when we opened one of the roofs in the morning. I was directing the rescue work at the scene at that time, and I filmed the rescue process through my cellphone as I was so proud of our soldiers rescuing the survivor and I was happy for his survival."
On Tuesday, police raided the offices of the company that was managing the dump site.
Chinese news portals said police had taken away a deputy general manager.
The Xinhua news agency says the dump was being used 10 months after it was supposed to have stopped taking waste, earning the company about $1.6 million in fees.
No waste is being brought to the industrial park now, and dumping has reportedly also stopped at another controversial site in Shenzhen.
The landslide is the second major man-made disaster in China in four months.
In August, more than 160 people were killed in massive chemical blasts in the northern port city of Tianjin.
The frequency of industrial accidents has raised questions about safety standards in China after three decades of rapid growth in the world's second largest economy.
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