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Nepal landslide: China opens disaster-hit Tibetan area to foreign media

From NHK · () Japanese

Translated from Japanese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • China’s Foreign Ministry opened a disaster-hit area in the Tibet Autonomous Region to foreign media.
  • The area suffered extensive damage from a major landslide near the Nepal border.
  • Reuters footage showed the site where a border checkpoint had stood, while searches continued for people trapped in a tunnel.

China’s Foreign Ministry has opened to foreign media a site in the Tibet Autonomous Region that suffered extensive damage from a major landslide near the Nepal border.

Footage distributed by Reuters and other outlets showed the area where a border checkpoint had stood. The report did not provide further details about the damage or the response.

Searches were continuing for people trapped in a tunnel after the landslide, according to related coverage highlighted alongside the report.

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Originally published by NHK in Japanese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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