28 January 2016•Update: 28 January 2016
BEIJING
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 73 people, one month after they went missing after a landslide collapsed several buildings at an industrial park in a southern Shenzhen city.
China Daily reported that as of noon Thursday rescuers had uncovered the corpses after 40 days of digging.
A total of 22 buildings, containing 15 companies, were buried in the Dec. 20 incident.
The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post cited an employee working in the area as saying that mud had been dumped near the industrial park over two to three years.
Of the 17 people injured in the disaster, local media reported 11 had been discharged from hospital.
The 4,630 people living at the site have been resettled and all families have agreed on compensation.
Officials have now arrested 42 people in connection with the incident.
According to a State Council investigation, the incident was the result of work safety mismanagement, rather than a natural disaster.
