Former Shenzhen official commits suicide in wake of deadly landslide
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A FORMER urban management official in Shenzhen, where a landslide killed one person and left 74 missing, presumed dead, committed suicide on Sunday, local police said yesterday.
The man, identified as the ex-director of the Guangming New District Urban Management Bureau, but only by his surname Xu, jumped to his death from an apartment building in the city’s Nanshan District about 9pm, police said.
His death came exactly a week after a waste dump at the Hengtaiyu industrial park in Guangming collapsed, destroying 33 buildings.
Police said also that they have placed 12 people under “coercive measures” — a term that generally means detention — as part of their investigation into the disaster on December 20, which the State Council ruled was a work safety incident rather than a natural disaster.
In August 2013, Luwei Property Management Co was granted a permit by the urban management bureau to use the site for receiving waste for one year from February 2014, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
When the licence expired, the company did not apply for an extension but continued to receive waste, it said.
The management bureau was aware of the permit violation and issued warnings, but failed to close the operation down, the report said.
Among the 12 people detained are executives of Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development Co, one of the companies that dumped waste at the site, Xinhua said.
It did not say if the 12 included any Luwei employees.
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