Officials pressed after China mudslide leaves 51 men and 25 women still missing

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 also recovered a man’s body in the first confirmed death from Sunday’s mudslide at the construction dump site in Shenzhen.

Still missing are 51 men and 25 women, vice mayor Liu Qingsheng told a televised news conference.