Just when Ye Kai flew over Kangcheng Town in a helicopter, people on the ground were also busy.
Going back ten hours, this place was still a relatively prosperous market, with a farmer's market, a school, many residential buildings, and a pig farm.
Then a sudden dam burst accident wiped out many things on the ground.
Xinxing Company is a large private enterprise in Xuling County, Dongshan City. It is built in Kangcheng Town. Its business mainly focuses on mining iron ore, as well as some other additional products. Its annual profit is about 6 million.
, the profit turned in was also more than 3 million.
At eight o'clock in the morning on April 30, Zhang Heshui, an employee of Xinxing Company, had just arrived on the first floor of the office building. He had just opened the office door and before he sat down at his desk, he heard a bang and the whole house shook.
, muddy water splashed on him, and it all happened in a matter of seconds.
Before he could figure out what was going on, he was thrown out and lost consciousness.
In fact, the entire office building was evicted.
The turbulent mud swept up the building and people, traveled nearly a hundred meters, and left them behind the market.
Afterwards, he learned that the tailings dam of Xinxing Iron Mine broke its banks, causing the mudslide.
When Zhang Heshui woke up, he found two colleagues from the company lying next to him.
He wanted to call for help, but he felt that his stomach and trachea were all full of mud, and the pain was like tearing, making him unable to speak.
Qi Fang is also an employee of a new company. When the incident occurred, the young man happened to be in a dormitory building far away from the office building, so he did not suffer much impact.
The young man's reaction was relatively quick. When he saw a black, gas-like object coming towards him, his first reaction was to throw himself to the ground.
By the time he reacted, the entire dormitory building had been thrown off the foundation, as easily as pulling out a carrot, or even easier.
The rumbling sound covered up everything. After everything calmed down, Qi Fang began to return to the company to save people.
He didn't see any tools at hand, and Qi Fang only found a wooden stick. He tried to use the wooden stick to explore whether there was life under the mud.
He was over 1.8 meters tall, and it became increasingly difficult for him to walk. The mud had reached the roots of his thighs, and he could not move the mud under his feet with a stick.
Qi Fang had no choice but to give up the search and rescue. In desperation, he accidentally discovered his colleague Zhang Heshui.
The office building of Xinxing Company was completely buried under the mud. There were about a hundred employees who went to work that day, and only a few survived. Many small flat buildings living in the town were also soaked in mud. The Chinese chrysanthemum trees on both sides of the road,
They were also washed to pieces.
At this time, everyone knew what happened.
The debris flow caused by the tailings dam breach travels farther than ordinary debris flows. The iron powder in the iron ore tailings dam is only slightly thicker than flour and has good fluidity. A tailings dam collapse occurred in southern Yunnan thirty years ago.
In the dam debris flow, the debris flow merged by the mineral powder rushed dozens of kilometers away before stopping.
Chen Rong and Li Jifang opened a small department store in Kangcheng Town at an intersection about 40 to 50 meters away from the market. They had just opened their eyes when the incident happened.
The noisy and terrifying screams made the couple wake up instantly.
Chen Rong looked out the window and saw many people running away desperately, and some shouted, "Go and save people, something big will happen!"
In an instant, Chen Rong's eyes became bright and everything he could see was filled with mud.
Neither he nor his wife could believe their eyes. The most prosperous place in this village had completely disappeared at this moment!
As a veteran, Chen Rong had been on the battlefield, fought in battles, seen blood and fire, and carried dead people, but he still took a few minutes to calm down.
At this time, many people had joined the rescue team, and many people who were covered in mud were dragged out of the mud. There were students, elderly people, and even pregnant women, and they were fighting against
Street friends.
In addition, there are many migrant workers from other places who are also anxious to save people like him.
The residents of Xinxing Company's mining area are mainly foreigners. Most of the people doing business in the market are people from nearby Kangcheng Town, as well as many miners from other places.
Chen Rong walked forward forty or fifty meters and found that it was difficult to walk. Every time he took a step, his feet would sink deeply into the mud.
Because he didn't know the depth, he walked very carefully, trying to follow the footsteps of those who had already gone to save others before walking forward.
When he walked to the market, Chen Rong first saw a man lying down, but he had no breath, one leg was missing, and his head was twisted from front to back. It was obvious that his cervical vertebra was broken.
Next to the dead man, Chen Rong found an unconscious woman. He pulled out the sheets soaked in the mud, tied her up, and dragged her to the side.
Going further, the quagmire became deeper, and more people with no signs of life began to appear on the roadside.
When the mudslide passed by, the huge impact overturned them, and then the turbid mud poured in from their noses, mouths, and ears, making them unable to breathe, and eventually bursting their lungs and taking away their lives.
At this time, it was less than a quarter of an hour before the incident happened.
The dam washed away by mud in the distance is much higher than the market, about a hundred meters.
Half an hour later, people from the fire rescue team and the county police department were the first to arrive at the scene of the incident. When they saw the scene in front of them, they couldn't help but feel cold because they were not familiar with the local terrain and there was mud everywhere.
, could not see the original situation at all, so the villagers led the way and rushed to rescue the people.
The office building of Xinxing Company, which was the first to bear the brunt, was rushed hundreds of meters away. Although the main body was still intact, of the hundreds of employees working here, the rescue team only saw less than ten people who successfully escaped.
Looking towards the village from here, it is also a mudflat with no sign of life.
"What a disaster!" The deputy captain of the fire rescue team who was leading the team couldn't help but sucked in a breath of air and muttered to himself.
"Old Liu, stop talking nonsense and save people!" an old policeman almost shouted with red eyes.
The old policeman's eldest brother lived in this town. At this time, he couldn't see the eldest brother's house that he was familiar with at all. It was completely flattened by the mudslide. He looked over and could recognize the location in front of him, but there was nothing on it.
The sign is just a pile of mud.
He couldn't even tell how deep the mud was and how much was buried underneath!
From the dam break point to two kilometers away, the mud is deep enough to submerge the ankles, let alone the front?
It’s just that the rescue team won’t be of much use. It’s all mud! Mud mixed with slag and mineral powder!
These things are different from the houses that collapsed after the earthquake. At least those things can be moved away with tools and put aside.
But how to deal with this mud? When you dig it up, new mud will immediately fill it up, filling the gap.
The reality is quite cruel, and there is nothing we can do about the situation in front of us.
All they could do was follow the villagers and try to find survivors from the mud, then drag them out and send them to the hospital for rescue. Other than that, there was no other way.
As for those people who were buried in collapsed houses and covered in mud, there was nothing anyone could do at this time.
The leaders of Xuling County also arrived within two hours of the incident. When they saw the scene in front of them, they felt a chill in their hearts.
County Magistrate Sun Shiwen's face was ashen and he wanted to drag out the boss of Xinxing Company and strangle him to death.
Relevant departments have long come to urge them to pay attention to the safety of the tailings pond and solve the danger hanging over Kangcheng Town. However, they just delayed and did not deal with it, and now such a tragic accident finally happened.
It's too late to say anything now, because there are no remedial measures or opportunities to remedy the situation.
"Report it to the city. This matter cannot be hidden." Bu Shiwen felt exhausted and said something.
Soon, the incident was reported. After a moment of silence on the other side of the phone, Meng Zhao issued an order to rescue survivors as soon as possible. At the same time, police were dispatched to block all the surrounding traffic arteries leading to Kangcheng Town.
Stay there to prevent outsiders from entering.
"You know the consequences of this matter even if I don't tell you. Even if I can escape responsibility for such a big thing, you can't. The only way now is to cover up this matter first, and then think about it again.
Way." Meng Zhao said to Sun Shiwen on the phone.
"Block all channels, block all communications, block all media, and then reopen Kangcheng Town after the matter is settled!" Sun Shiwen thought of Meng Zhao's words, and immediately became cruel and announced an order to blockade Kangcheng Town.
Six hours after the incident, Secretary Yue Shan of the Provincial Party Committee received the news and immediately entrusted Secretary Qin Fangchen of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection to rush to Dongshan City to investigate the truth of the incident and deal with the aftermath.
Twelve hours after the incident, Secretary Qin Fangchen finally broke through many obstacles and stood on the high ground outside Kangcheng Town.
Looking at the vast swath of mud in front of him, and then comparing it to a photo of the original appearance of Kangcheng Town found in a local people's home, Secretary Qin Fangchen couldn't help but be shocked.
Although I have seen many things such as mining accidents before, they were all small-scale accidents after all. They might have killed a few people or dozens of people. They were already considered to be quite shocking and serious accidents.
But the situation in front of him saw that almost half of a town was buried. How many lives would be taken into account? Secretary Qin Fangchen was not sure at all, or the number of victims would exceed several hundred.
The gateway, right?
"It's terrible, this is really a disaster!" Secretary Qin Fangchen muttered to himself.!~!
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