At least 91 people missing after landslide at Chinese industrial park

Rescuers in Shenzhen.
(Image credit: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)

The Chinese Ministry of Land Resources is blaming a landslide that buried 33 buildings in a Shenzhen industrial park on a mountain of waste construction mud.

At least 91 people are missing, and hundreds of rescuers are looking for survivors. State media reports that mud is covering more than 72,000 square yards and is nearly 20 feet deep in some areas. The buildings destroyed include 14 factories and three dormitories, Reuters reports, and more than 900 people have been evacuated from the area. By Sunday evening 14 people had been rescued.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.