China-Nepal floods: police officer filmed guiding people away from stricken border post
Video footage taken moments before a catastrophic mudslide hit a border post in Tibet shows how one police officer stationed there tried to guide civilians to safety. The clip, which shows the officer trying to direct people away from the police station at Gyirong Port, went viral online in China over the weekend. State broadcaster CCTV said the officer, whom it named as Huang Peng, also rushed…
On Wednesday, a devastating mudslide swept through a border post in Tibet, leaving behind a trail of destruction. A police officer stationed at the scene, named Huang Peng, attempted to guide civilians to safety by directing them away from the police station at Gyirong Port. The officer, who had been on duty for 13 years, also tried to warn residents of a nearby tourist service center to evacuate.
However, the landslide was triggered by the collapse of a glacier approximately 7 kilometers from the border crossing. The debris was moving at an alarming speed of 50 meters per second, leaving little time for those in its path to escape. The disaster claimed the lives of at least seven people on the Chinese side, with 544 missing.
The impact was catastrophic, as satellite images revealed that all the buildings at Gyirong Port were reduced to rubble. The disaster also left the area without power and internet connectivity. Despite efforts to restore telecom services, it took until Thursday for connectivity to be restored to a village about 3 kilometers from the border.
Search and rescue operations are still underway on both sides of the border, with more than 2,400 people missing in Nepal.
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