China News Service, Kunming, January 23 (Chen Jing) In the early morning of the 23rd, the first press conference for the landslide in Zhenxiong, Yunnan was held.

Yang Xuchun, the head of Zhenxiong County, said that as of 22:00 on the 22nd, 11 missing people had been rescued at the scene, and they had no vital signs. The rest of the missing people were being searched and rescued with all their strength.

  At about 6 o'clock on January 22, a landslide occurred in Liangshui Village, Tangfang Town, Zhenxiong County. According to preliminary verification, 47 people from 18 households in two village groups, Hexing and Heping, lost contact.

Among them, there are 14 households with 31 people in the Hexing village group and 4 households with 16 people in the Heping village group.

  After the disaster occurred, rescue personnel such as armed police, firefighting, mine rescue, emergency, public security, natural resources, health, transportation, and militia teams rushed to the scene to carry out rescue operations. They integrated expert and technical forces at the national, provincial and municipal levels to carry out rescue operations in the disaster area. Conduct scientific research and judgment to ensure scientific and safe emergency rescue.

  At present, there are more than 1,000 rescue forces including provincial, municipal and county fire rescue teams, China Power Construction Hydropower 14th Bureau, China Communications Construction Company No. 2 Bureau, Sichuan Sichuan Coal Mine Rescue Team and 45 search and rescue dogs, mobilizing excavators, loaders, transportation A total of 120 rescue vehicles were put into rescue.

  At the same time, county, town and village cadres were organized to relocate people in the dangerous areas of Hexing and Heping village groups. A total of 213 people from 58 households were relocated, including 171 people who were seeking relatives and friends, and 42 people were resettled in a centralized manner.

At present, the basic living needs of the disaster-stricken people such as housing, food, and heating are fully guaranteed.

  Currently, the disaster-stricken area is experiencing persistent low-temperature rain and snow. Zhenxiong County has invested in 4 sets of snow-melting spreaders and 459 tons of snow-melting agent to melt snow and ensure smooth traffic on roads leading to the disaster-stricken area; the work of appeasing the masses, maintaining order, and ensuring power and communication are in order carry out.

Currently, traffic to the disaster-stricken areas is smooth and power communications are normal.

222 disaster relief tents, 400 quilts, 600 cotton coats, 14 sets of emergency lighting equipment, and various types of rescue and living supplies were mobilized for emergency use.

  Wu Junyao, Party Secretary and Director of the Zhaotong Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, introduced that after preliminary analysis by the expert team, the disaster occurred in the steep cliff area on the top of the slope. The collapse body was about 100 meters wide, 60 meters high, and had an average thickness of about 6 meters. , the collapsed volume is about 50,000 cubic meters.

After the colluvial body collapses to the middle slope area, the strong impact force of the colluvial body moves to the middle and lower steep slope area and scrapes the surface soil, forming a collapse debris flow and impacting to the foot of the slope, with a total cubic volume of about 70,000 cubic meters.

The landslide debris flow caused the collapse of the houses below. The height difference between the collapse area and the residential area was about 150 meters.

  Yang Xuchun said that in the next step, we will make every effort to search and rescue the missing people and do our best to reduce casualties; we will do our best to do mass work, conscientiously carry out the relocation and resettlement of people in dangerous areas, comfort the families of the victims, and ensure the living, warmth and other supplies of the relocated personnel. Properly do a good job in the aftermath; strengthen monitoring and early warning, resolutely curb the occurrence of geological disasters; actively promote post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, start construction as soon as possible, and make every effort to restore the order of people's production and life.

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