Man rescued 67 hours after landslide in China

A man who was buried alive in a landslide in an area of Shenzhen in China, was found alive 67 hours later, according to international reports.

The survivor, a 19-year-old man, was found around 04:00 local time on Wednesday  in a buried building and he has been identified as Tian Zeming, a migrant worker from Chongqing in south-western China.

Authorities said that he was found in an extremely weak condition in an excavated hole under the building's roof and doctors say he was severely dehydrated and had a crushed leg, with rescuers taking about two hours to safely pull him out.

According to reports, while rescuing Tian, workers found a man's body nearby that showed no signs of life.

The landslide occurred on Sunday and dragged down over 30 buildings in its wake, with rescuers pulling out the first body from the rubble on Tuesday, and over 70 people still missing, but no official death toll has been released yet.

According to reports, the landslide happened when a huge man-made mound of earth and construction waste collapsed after heavy rains, prompting the government to open an official investigation into the incident.

About 900 people were evacuated on Sunday as waves of soil and debris rolled across the district and sparked an explosion at a natural gas pipeline, the BBC adds.

The landslide blanketed an area of about 380,000 sq m, the equivalent of about 50 football fields, with some areas being covered with up to 10m of mud, and rescue efforts involving thousands of people.