China News Agency, Beijing, January 18 (Reporter Guo Chaokai and Chen Su) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Emergency Management of China on the 18th that the Duoxiongla Tunnel Exit (Medog direction) of the Medog Highway from Pai Town, Milin County, Nyingchi City, Tibet, occurred on the 17th. The avalanche trapped people and vehicles.
The Ministry of Emergency Management sent a working group to Tibet to guide the localities in disaster response and disposal.
After receiving the report, the Emergency Management Department continued to dispatch and guide the search and rescue work. Minister Wang Xiangxi immediately made deployments, requesting to go all out for rescue, to approve the number of people and the situation of buried vehicles as soon as possible, to strengthen monitoring, early warning and transfer of risk avoidance measures to strictly prevent secondary disasters. Do a good job in emergency response and prevention.
After the disaster, the local national comprehensive fire rescue team dispatched 131 people and 28 vehicles to the scene overnight for rescue.
According to news from the Linzhi Municipal Party Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region, at about 19:50 on January 17, the 110 command center of the Medog County Public Security Bureau in Linzhi City received a call from the masses saying that the Duoxiongla Tunnel Exit from Pai Town, Milin County to Medog Highway (Medog direction) an avalanche occurred, causing people and vehicles to be trapped.
So far, search and rescue personnel have found 8 victims, and the search and rescue work for missing persons is progressing in an orderly manner.
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