4th batch of Chinese emergency aid reaches Nepal

The fourth batch of emergency relief supplies from China arrived at Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Tuesday.

The shipment was received by China's Ambassador to Nepal, Zhang Maoming, and Nepal's Minister for Science and Technology, Mahabir Pun.

According to the Chinese Embassy in Nepal, the supplies mainly include rescue hovercrafts, stainless steel permanent-magnet flood-control pumps, backup batteries, mortuary cabinets, solar lamps, and other items.

The supplies will be transported from Kathmandu to the disaster-hit areas. Four-wheel-drive vehicles will be used where roads remain accessible, while helicopters will deliver supplies to more remote locations. In some areas, Chinese drones capable of carrying payloads of up to 80 kilograms will also be used.

Chinese rescuers are already on the ground, joining local search operations, while meteorological data from Chinese satellites provide detailed weather information for remote and hard-to-reach areas.

The death toll on the Nepali side from the deadly mudslide triggered by an ice-rock avalanche in Nepal on Aug. 26 has reached 1,364, Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said on Tuesday.

4th batch of Chinese emergency aid reaches Nepal

Rescuers entered the core disaster zone in Mingkeng Village of east China's Jiangxi Province on Tuesday to search for the people missing in a mudslide which occurred in the village on Saturday.

The disaster had left 12 people dead and another one missing in the village as of Tuesday afternoon, according to local officials.

A total of 12 professional rescue teams have been deployed to the core area for the clearing and search operations on Tuesday. With routes into the village restored, the rescue command center has divided the site into four operational zones.

Heavy machinery is being used to clear collapsed slopes and buried houses, while rescuers use radar life-detection devices and search dogs to carry out alternating, grid searching.

"We have entered the core area to search eight houses. By coordinating multiple forces, we are conducting zone-based and targeted positioning search and rescue operation," said Qiao Dianfu, a rescue commander from China Anneng Group Second Engineering Bureau Company.

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