Official Commits Suicide After Landslide

A Chinese official who led the agency responsible for managing the waste heap that collapsed and caused a massive lethal landslide last week jumped to his death late Sunday. Authorities said Monday that Xu Yuan’an, head of the City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau for Shenzhen’s Guangming New District, committed suicide following the city’s devastating mudslide that killed at least seven people and left dozens missing. The disaster was triggered by improper storage of waste from construction sites, according to the official newspaper of the Ministry of Land and Resources.