Twenty-one people were hurt and sent to hospital, fortunately none with life threatening injuries. The landslide basically destroyed the village, razing 77 buildings.

Approximately 200 emergency rescue workers including military staff, the police and firefighters are on the site. Rescue worker are searching through the rubble and debris by hand.

According to local sources, the mountain has had frequent landslides in the past.

Photo: China News 

Approximately 70 Guangzhou buses have been equipped with windows that break themselves in case of an emergency, reports Sina.

The automatic window breakers are controlled by the bus driver, who can destroy all of the windows on the bus with the flick of a switch. They take between 0.1 and 0.3 seconds to completely shatter. Guangzhou bus routes #205, #208 and #275 are the first to be equipped with the technology.

Hopefully the breakers will help prevent incidents like the one that occurred earlier this month, when a disgruntled man with gambling debts set fire to a Guangzhou bus, causing two fatalities and 35 injuries.

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Photos: CRI

No reprieve from the rain is expected at the moment as the local weather forecast expects rainfall to continue for the next 24 hours.

Over 150 roads and 20 areas of Shenzhen have been flooded; 10 of those areas expected to be qualified as “disaster zones”.

An estimated 2000 cars have been rendered immobile due to the flooding. Due to the flooding of approximately 400 tracks, over 5458 public buses and trams have been put out of commission.

Shenzhen has issued sporadic red alert weather warnings since the rainfall first began on May 8. Shenzhen’s Longhua District recorded a rainfall of 430.7 mm, while a rainfall of over 100 millimeters within three hours on Sunday afternoon paralyzed traffic throughout the city.

At this time, the Hong Kong Observatory has repealed the red alert warning issued yesterday May 11 at 9:50pm. 

UPDATE: More pictures of flooding from around Shenzhen.

Photos: CFP via CRI, People’s Daily via Weibo, Caijing via Weibo, Shenzhen Evening Report via Weibo

The Nanfang was contacted by a resident of the apartments, who notified us that smoke was smelled in the building’s hallway at about 8:30am today. The couple in the suite then took the stairwell to the basement, where doors were padlocked shut.  At no time did the fire alarm sound or were the emergency exit lights illuminated.

Eventually a fireman appeared who lead them to safety, however many complained that the exit doors were locked.  Our source said he saw a couple of people taken away by ambulance, including one person on a stretcher.

Update: 11:57am

We’ve been told the situation is now under control, but several fire trucks remain at the scene.  In the photos below, you can see the front of Onelink Apartments and also staff clearing some of the damage from the Zara shop in the Onelink Shopping Mall.