Waste mudslide covers buildings in China’s latest industrial disaster

Officials highlighted their handling of the search for 76 missing people at a collapsed mountain of construction waste as questions mounted yesterday about why leaders in southern China’s most prominent manufacturing city didn’t act months earlier to prevent the disaster.

Rescuers were searching for at least 91 missing people a day after a mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Sunday.

A landslide has collapsed and buried buildings at and around an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, leaving 27 people missing, authorities said.