China News Service, Qingyuan, May 29 (Reporters Li Ling and Yang Xuan) -- On May 29, the public security bureau of Yangshan County in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, reported that according to a preliminary investigation, the incident where three teenagers were crushed to death by a large rock rolling down the mountain on May 28 was likely caused by an excavator loosening rocks while digging a road. In the morning of May 29, the police detained both the owner and the driver of the excavator.
At noon on May 28, three teenagers from Shidispanshui Village under the Longhu Pit Village Committee in Qigong Town of Yangshan County -- Wen (male, 16 years old), Wen (female, 15 years old), and Liu (male, 10 years old) -- took advantage of their weekend break to leave the village together with a portable electric fisher and buckets to go fishing.
By evening when it was time for dinner, the three teenagers had still not returned home. As it was getting dark, the parents of the three teenagers searched the village but could not find them. They then anxiously mobilized other villagers to search everywhere.
After several hours of searching, at around 22:00 that night, the parents of the three teenagers and the villagers finally found them under a large rock that had rolled down the mountain in a ravine behind Yuanjiang Village under the Dongjiang Village Committee in Dubu Town. The three were pinned beneath the rock.
At about 1:00 AM on May 29, after receiving an emergency call, the police officers of the Dubu Police Station quickly rushed to the scene of the accident and found that the three teenagers had already died, with stones pressing on their bodies.
According to local villagers, the rock might have been loosened by an excavator working on the mountain road and subsequently rolled down. The police immediately went up the mountain with two villagers and indeed found an excavator and signs of roadwork halfway up the mountain above the bodies.
At 9:00 AM on May 29, the police detained both the owner and the driver of the excavator and will conduct further investigations into the cause of the incident and the cause of death of the three teenagers.
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