BEIJING (Reuters) - China has detained 53 people in connection with a landslide that killed 73 people last year in the southern city of Shenzhen, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday, citing a State Council investigation.
Investigators found that the Dec. 20 disaster, which was characterised as an "extraordinarily serious" industrial accident, occurred because too much waste construction material had been dumped in a landfill.
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