China restores access to Tibet disaster zone as highway reopens
Heavy machinery reached the core disaster zone after crews reopened the only road, as more than 2,100 rescuers continued searching for 546 missing people.
- China fully reopened the only road to Gyirong Port in Xizang Autonomous Region on September 2, allowing heavy machinery to reach the core disaster zone for the first time since August 26.
- A glacier collapse on August 26 triggered mudslides and floods across the China-Nepal border, burying residential buildings under two meters of mud and rock while leaving 16 people dead and 546 missing in Tibet.
- China mobilized 2,141 rescuers, 269 vehicles, and 3,922 pieces of equipment to the devastated area, while China Anneng deployed 158 personnel and 28 pieces of heavy machinery to reinforce search operations.
- The death toll in Nepal crossed 1,000 on September 2, while 50 tonnes of relief supplies arrived in Kathmandu to support ongoing search efforts for missing foreign nationals from 23 countries.
- Monitoring teams continue assessing barrier dam stability and secondary risks in Gyirong County, while crews install 40 power poles to provide reliable electricity for ongoing rescue operations.
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China restores road access to Tibet disaster zone as search intensifies
"Large numbers" of heavy machines have now reached the site in Gyirong where the Chinese border inspection complex once stood, along with equipment to reinforce search operations, says state broadcaster CCTV.
Beijing, 2 Sep (EFE).- The Chinese emergency teams have already called for "practically open" land access to the core of the area razed by the flood in the Tibetan county of Gyirong, after a week of work conditioned by destroyed roads, landslides and the risk of new secondary disasters. State agency Xinhua [...] The Chinese entrance manages to open land access to the core of the raging area in Tibet was first published in HolaNews.
The catastrophic avalanche followed by flooding that destroyed cities and hydroelectric plants a week ago on the border of Nepal with Tibet, territory controlled by China, was unleashed by a higher energy release than the Hiroshima bomb, of about 15,000 tons of dynamite. The calculation, reported in Science magazine, is by Adhikari Basanta Raj, director of the Center for Disaster Studies at the University of Tribhuvan, Nepal.
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