March 31, 2013
...Xinhua (click here) said a majority of the 83 workers at the camp were majority Han Chinese migrants from the provinces of Gansu and Guizhou. Several were Tibetans from the provincial capital, Lhasa.
The copper mine near Gyama village is operated by a subsidiary of China National Gold Group Corporation, a state-owned enterprise that is the country's top gold producer. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang ordered authorities to exert maximum efforts to rescue the buried workers.
Xinhua said rescuers are working around the clock at the site, using excavating machines to clear debris and widening roads to allow more equipment to be brought in. But it said the high altitude and snowy weather at the site led to some rescuers suffering altitude sickness and fever....
36 bodies found at Tibet landslide site (click here)
English.news.cn 2013-04-01 17:27:45
36 bodies found at Tibet landslide site (click here)
English.news.cn 2013-04-01 17:27:45
MAIZHOKUNGGAR, Tibet, April 1 (Xinhua) -- By Monday afternoon, rescuers had retrieved 36 bodies from the site of a massive landslide that buried 83 miners in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Friday....2013-04-01
Editor: Hou Qiang
(To the right) Rescuers work at the site where a landslide hit one section of Chongqing-Guiyang Railway in southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 31, 2013. The landslide caused 2 trains off-the-line and 5 trains rechannel. (Xinhua/Zhou Tao)
