According to the Propaganda Department of the Dapu County Party Committee of Meizhou, Guangdong, at about 2:10 a.m. on May 1, the highway pavement collapsed near K11+900m in the direction of Fujian on the Meida Expressway. As of 2 p.m. today, 48 people have died as a result of the landslide, another 3 people have been confirmed by DNA verification, and 30 people have been injured (non-life-threatening).
On May 2, Meizhou, Guangdong Province held a press conference to report on the rescue and treatment of the 5.1 road collapse disaster in the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway. Wang Hui, mayor of Meizhou City, introduced that after the disaster, a total of 577 rescue forces such as emergency, public security, fire protection, health, transportation, and communications were dispatched, and 64 rescue vehicles of various types were mobilized to carry out grid rescue in the accident area, and carpet search and rescue were carried out, and no large vehicles such as hazardous vehicles and buses were found. At present, the rescue work is still being carried out in an orderly manner.
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The driver rescued 6 people, the youngest of whom was 3 years old
Tai Po fire and rescue personnel introduced, "After receiving the notice at half past two in the morning, more than 20 firefighters have arrived at the scene to carry out rescue. Immediately afterwards, rescue equipment and personnel entered the rescue site one after another.
It is understood that before rescuers arrived at the scene, a number of drivers who passed by the accident site got out of the car to rescue people as soon as possible. Liu Yongjin, who drove home from Shenzhen via this road, was one of them.
Liu Yongjin is a native of Yongding, Longyan, Fujian Province, and drove home from Shenzhen during the May Day holiday. "When I was passing through this section of the road, I saw a car going in the wrong direction, and I felt that something was wrong. At 2:30 a.m. on May 1, Liu Yongjin found an abnormality when he drove to the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway, "I continued to walk forward, and they said that the bridge in front of me had collapsed, and more than 10 cars had fallen down, so I pulled over and turned off the ignition, and immediately asked them if they had called the police or an ambulance." ”
After stopping the car, Liu Yongjin got out of the car and walked to the scene of the accident, where he saw more than a dozen cars falling from the high-speed road collapse, and sparks came out from the vehicles from time to time. "At that time, I didn't care so much, thinking that it was important to save people, so I went down. At that time, I turned on my phone's flashlight and walked down the muddy slope in the dark. When I saw some people crawling out of the car, I picked up the children and helped the adults to move to a safe place. A total of 6 people were rescued, 3 adults and 3 children, and the youngest was about 3 years old. After the on-site fire and other rescue forces were sufficient, Liu Yongjin was relieved to come up and rest. It wasn't until 4 a.m. that he drove away, leaving covered in mud.
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Citizens lined up overnight to donate blood
After the disaster, Meizhou City coordinated and arranged for the health department to be stationed in the hospital, opened a "green channel" for the treatment of the wounded, urgently deployed experts and materials, and organized a total of 12 provincial medical experts, 20 municipal medical experts, 30 ambulances, and more than 200 medical staff to carry out multidisciplinary consultations. Targeted treatment measures should be taken to treat the injured as best they could.
It is reported that because of the need for blood to rescue the wounded, many caring citizens have gone to the nearest blood donation point to help donate blood. We call on more volunteers and caring people from all walks of life who are physically able to actively participate in blood donation and work together for the relay of life.
△ Some citizens photographed a long queue at the blood donation point in People's Square in Meixian District
Source: CCTV