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16 Dead, 546 Missing After Mudslide Hit Border Port in China's Xizang
Chinese officials said a glacier fracture triggered the disaster, and no foreign tourists remain stranded in Gyirong County, CCTV reported.
- On Sunday, Chinese authorities increased the death toll from a Tibet mudslide to 16, while 546 people remain missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
- Experts concluded a glacier on Nepal's Lirung Peak fractured at 10:52 am Beijing Time on August 26, triggering an ice-rock avalanche, Xinhua news agency said.
- Figures from Nepal and China put total missing close to 3,000 with 691 bodies recovered. Of those missing in Tibet, 261 are foreign nationals, including 104 from Nepal, 49 from India, 33 from Latvia, and 18 from the United States.
- Chinese authorities notified foreign embassies of the missing nationals, CCTV said. Following comprehensive surveys at Gyirong County in Tibet, officials confirmed no foreign tourists remain stranded.
- A devastating wall of water tore through the border region between Nepal and Tibet this week, sweeping away entire villages amid the disaster's broader destruction.
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16 dead, 546 missing after mudslide hit border port in China's Xizang
Sixteen people have been confirmed dead and 546 others remain missing as of 6 p.m. Saturday after a mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on August 26, according to the regional government.
·Beijing, China
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The toll of victims of the massive mudslide that swept the border port of Jiirong in the self-governing area of Chitsang in south-western China has risen to 16 dead, while 546 others remain missing, including hundreds of foreigners.
·Syrian Arab Republic (the)
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Chinese state media reported on Sunday, citing local officials, that the death toll from a landslide in Tibet had risen to 16, with another 546 people missing.
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