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BEIJING — At least 128 people were killed and many more were feared dead in north China after a huge reservoir of iron ore waste, illegally maintained and turned to sludge by heavy rain, buried a marketplace in tons of mud.
Two thousand rescuers shoveled and hammered through the debris Wednesday searching for those buried under the three-story wave of mud and mining waste that inundated a valley in Shanxi province’s Xiangfen county Monday. State media put the official death toll at 128 people, with 34 more injured.
The Shanghai Morning Post reported that hundreds may have been buried at a busy outdoor market and in a building where more than 100 people from a local mining company were holding their weekly meeting.
