Huge China sinkhole kills five
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A rescue worker climbs down a ladder to search for survivors in a road cave-in at Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on May 21, 2013. Five people died when a 10m-wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen, the Southern Chinese boom town neighbouring Hong Kong, local authorities said on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
BEIJING (AFP) - Five people died when a 10m wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boom town neighbouring Hong Kong, local authorities said on Tuesday.
The Shenzhen Longgang district government said on its verified page on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, that five people had died and added that it was investigating the incident.
The sinkhole formed just outside the Huamao Industrial Park in Shenzhen on Monday evening, at a time when many factory workers would have been changing shifts, according to the website of Beijing-based newspaper the Guangming Daily.
The state-run Shanghai Daily newspaper said that rescuers saved one man.
