China News Service, Changsha, May 2 (Fu Jingyi and Yang Huafeng) As of 19:20 on May 2, 8 trapped people have been successfully searched and rescued at the scene of the collapse of Changsha residents' self-built houses.

Reporter Xu learned from the accident scene at 20:30 that rescuers were near the location of the 8th trapped person and could detect signs of life, and are currently actively rescuing the 9th trapped person.

At about 19:20 on May 2, the eighth trapped person was rescued at the scene of the collapse of the self-built house by residents in Changsha, Hunan.

It is reported that the trapped person is a woman.

Photo by Yang Huafeng

  That night, the third press conference on the collapse of Changsha residents' self-built houses was held to report the latest situation of the accident rescue.

Zheng Jianxin, deputy secretary of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee, mayor, and commander-in-chief of the on-site dispatch and disposal headquarters, said that the rescued eighth trapped person was in the same area as the sixth trapped person. Being held down by heavy objects, it is very difficult to rescue at the scene, but the rescuers have been doing everything possible to quickly rescue them, replenishing the trapped people with supplies such as physiological saline, and calling every once in a while to encourage confidence, save physical strength, and wait for rescue .

After the arduous efforts of the rescuers, the trapped person was finally rescued successfully and has been sent to the hospital for treatment.

  According to Ouyang Wen, Vice President of the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University and an expert in the medical treatment team, as of 12:00 on the 2nd, 7 people have been admitted to the hospital, all of which have been injured in various degrees of skin and soft tissue in multiple parts of the body due to the collapse of the house. There were multiple severe crush injuries and organ injuries; most of the wounded had single or multiple fractures in the upper limbs, lower limbs, vertebral body, pelvis, etc., and post-traumatic stress reactions; 7 wounded were admitted to the hospital's orthopaedic ward or ICU, Individual injured patients are admitted to the orthopaedic ward or ICU after direct surgery.

At present, the medical department adopts a plan of diagnosis and treatment, one person, one policy, as well as psychological intervention and support for all the injured.

Rescuers carried the trapped person into an ambulance.

Photo by Yang Huafeng

  Following the successful rescue of the 8th trapped person, signs of life can be detected near his location through the equipment, and the rescue team is currently actively rescuing.

Chen Dachuan, a professor at the School of Civil Engineering of Hunan University and deputy head of the on-site emergency rescue expert group, said that according to the test, the position of the ninth trapped person was deeper than that of the eighth person, and the rescue was more difficult.

  Zheng Jianxin said that in the next step, Changsha will continue to race against time to search and rescue the trapped people. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, it will never give up, protect lives at all costs, and go all out to carry out rescue and treatment.

  At present, Changsha is deeply learning lessons, drawing inferences from other facts, vigorously carrying out special rectification of self-built houses, highlighting key points such as self-built houses for business use, old dilapidated houses, "residential-to-commercial" buildings, and densely populated public buildings, and rapidly develops pull-net-style, Carpet-type investigation, to grasp the existing major risks and hidden dangers to the end and solve them thoroughly, to ensure that similar accidents do not happen again, and to resolutely curb major and extraordinarily serious safety accidents.

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