China Massive mudslide in China-Nepal border cause thousands of missing

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A massive mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border, with CCTV footage showing a wall of debris slamming through the crossing in seconds, tossing vehicles and buses.

Nepal reports at least 8-16 dead with hundreds of travelers listed as missing, including 291 foreigners.

Roads, power, and communications on the Chinese side were cut.

President Xi ordered all-out search efforts.

About 430 MW of hydropower capacity, roughly 12% of Nepal's total, was affected.

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The Nepalese side has so far confirmed 384 people missing, including 93 Nepali citizens and 291 foreigners, of whom 105 are Indians.
The nationalities of the rest are still being verified.

Since China lies downstream, the damage could be even greater than that on the Nepalese side, the exact casualty figures are still being tallied.

 

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A mudslide in Nepal has caused significant casualties across the China-Nepal border. As of 8 p.m. Wednesday, three people were dead and 265 missing at Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang. China has mobilized extensive rescue teams and supplies to search for the missing and prevent further casualties.

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JILONG, Tibet, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Authorities said at a press conference in Shigatse City, Tibet, that a mudslide hit Gyirong County in Shigatse City at around 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 26, causing major casualties and missing persons. According to preliminary statistics, 2 people have been rescued, 3 have been confirmed dead, and 558 remain missing as of now.

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西藏吉隆泥石流灾害救出2人，3人遇难、558人失联-

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The number of people missing in Nepal has risen sharply to 4,247 and the death toll has climbed to 903 after last week's catastrophic flooding, officials say.

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Rescuers are urgently pumping air into into a tunnel at a hydropower project along Nepal’s Trishuli river, and plan to drill a manhole in the hopes of sending teams inside to look for survivors.

An estimated 898 workers at various hydropower projects are unaccounted for, according to the country’s Independent Power Producers’ Association. About 361 workers have been rescued so far, their data shows.

“There has been some success in the ongoing rescue efforts at the Trishuli–3 ‘A’ Hydropower Project tunnel, which was buried under mud and sludge following the flood,” wrote Biraj Bhakta Shrestha, Nepal’s Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, in an update late Saturday night.

Crews had been working with excavators to clear the mud and sludge, and had drilled a 6-inch hole through the upper section of the tunnel, he wrote. Initial inspections showed no debris inside; they’ve since pumped air into the tunnel, and let in light and sound, but have yet to establish communication with anyone inside.

“The plan is now to enlarge the existing hole and create a manhole so that the rescue operation can proceed further,” he wrote. “The current target is to reach the main tunnel through the existing tunnel route by tomorrow.”

Earlier on Friday, the Nepali army released dramatic video showing rescuers saving several people from the tunnel of a hydropower plant in Rasuwa district, with survivors crawling through thick mud and being carried out by emergency responders.

The Nepali government has requested experts on tunnel rescues from India and China to help free the trapped workers. Teams from both countries arrived in Nepal on Saturday.

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