As hundreds of rescuers race against time to retrieve those who are believed buried under a giant deluge of mud and construction waste in Shenzhen, the police have started doing their part by raiding the office of the company that manages the dumpsite.

According to a Reuters report, Chinese policemen were seen at the offices of Shenzhen Yixianghong Investment Development, the company that manages the dumpsite that cave in, causing a massive landslide that buried 33 buildings.

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The police tried to keep the media off its operations but a Reuters reporter said he saw policemen at the registered office of the dumpsite manager in a residential suburb in Shenzhen.

Police were taking pictures inside the room but they stopped and shooed the reporter away. In another room, the reporter saw a woman crouched on the floor with her hands in her head.

The office, situated in an apartment complex, was already abandoned and no one was inside when the police barged in. Another company office showed no sign of any employees. The police has not announced any arrest as of press time.

The raid came following the killer landslide that occurred in the dumpsite, killing at least one person with 76 people still missing.

The landslide was so huge that it buried 33 buildings under heaps of mud and construction waste. Authorities believed those who are still missing may have been buried under mud up to 10 meters deep.

Officials of Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development have not issued a statement following the incident but a document obtained by Reuters showed that the company has agreed to take responsibility in the even of an accident.

The government earlier warned that the dumpsite was dangerous and had even ordered the dumpsite management to stop taking any more waste. Witnesses, however, said that operations at the dumpsite continued despite the order and that hundreds of trucks were dumping waste everyday.

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