China News Service, Kunming, January 25 (Chen Jing) The Yunnan Zhenxiong "1.22" landslide disaster response headquarters held a press conference on the evening of the 25th. Yang Xuchun, the head of Zhenxiong County, said that as of 20:4 on that day, All 44 missing persons have been rescued and all have no vital signs.
The Zhenxiong County Party Committee and the county government have studied and determined transitional resettlement measures. The government will uniformly relocate the families of the victims to the county resettlement community. The transitional resettlement period is tentatively set for 6 months.
At about 6 o'clock on January 22, a landslide occurred in Liangshui Village, Tangfang Town, Zhenxiong County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, causing 18 houses to be buried and 44 people missing.
The picture shows fire rescue personnel carrying out rescue operations at the Zhenxiong landslide site on January 25.
Photo by China News Service reporter Liu Ranyang
After the disaster occurred, Zhenxiong County responded quickly and established the "1·22" landslide disaster response headquarters, mobilizing more than 270 rescue equipment and vehicles such as excavators, loaders, and fire trucks, and 80 search and rescue dogs. Invested in emergency rescue, integrating 1,557 people from 28 rescue forces including emergency response, firefighting, public security, energy, militia, natural resources, and mine rescue to carry out on-site rescue.
Among the 47 missing persons in the first preliminary verification, 3 missing persons were out when the disaster occurred and were contacted on January 23, so the actual number of missing persons was 44.
At 20:04 on January 25, after 85 hours of continuous day and night efforts by the rescue team, the last missing person was rescued, and all 44 missing people were found. All of them had no vital signs and were all killed.
Yang Xuchun said that after fully respecting the wishes of the victims' families and after consultation and communication, proper arrangements were made for the transportation, storage, dressing, cremation, urns and other funeral services of the victims' remains, and the costs were fully borne by the county government.
Timely implementation of rescue policies such as comfort and compensation for victims.
The picture shows the landslide disaster scene in Zhenxiong County on January 25.
Photo by China News Service reporter Liu Ranyang
A total of 918 people from 223 households were relocated for emergency evacuation in this disaster.
The Zhenxiong County Party Committee and County Government have studied and determined transitional resettlement measures and are formulating a post-disaster recovery and reconstruction plan to ensure that the affected people are properly resettled and rebuild their homes.
The families of the victims will be uniformly resettled by the government to resettlement communities in the county, and the transitional resettlement period is tentatively scheduled for 6 months. The remaining families can choose to be resettled in resettlement communities, or they can choose to live with relatives and friends outside the affected area, rent a house, etc. For transitional resettlement, the government will provide subsidies, and the subsidy period is tentatively set at 6 months.
For those who choose a resettlement community, the county government will provide basic daily necessities such as bedding, kitchen utensils, tables, chairs, and wardrobes in the house.
At the same time, county, town, and village cadres ensure the disaster-stricken people, specify and clarify the protection tasks and responsibilities, and provide difficult assistance, material support, care, and psychological counseling to ensure the people's needs for food, housing, heating, medical treatment, and schooling. Put it into place.
"We have also noticed that there have been some voices on the Internet recently who are more concerned about the frequent occurrence and causes of geological disasters in Zhenxiong." Yang Xuchun said, "We will attach great importance to it and organize experts to conduct in-depth investigations to further identify the causes and take targeted measures. preventive and control measures to eliminate hidden dangers of geological disasters and resolutely ensure the safety of people’s lives and property.” (End)