“Arrests and suicide in China after mountain of construction waste flattens part of Shenzhen”, 4 Jan 2015

The death toll is certain to rise as Chinese media reported 62 people still missing on 31 December, eleven days after the landslide destroyed 33 buildings in the Hengtaiyu industrial zone…On 27 December, Xu Yuanan, director of the Shenzhen Guangming New District Urban Management Bureau, which approved the waste dump, jumped from a building to his death…

Officials announced the arrests of 11 people in connection with the disaster on 31 December. The 11 include a legal representative and a deputy general manager of a company that was in charge of the landfill, state news agency Xinhua reported. They were charged with negligently causing a serious accident, said the procuratorate of Bao’an district, Shenzhen…

Unsafe disposal of construction waste is a problem throughout China, Yuan Hongping, associate professor at Southwest Jiaotong University in Sichuan, told the newspaper…