{"id":60796,"date":"2026-08-26T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=60796"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:51:10","slug":"tibets-gyirong-suffers-major-casualties-from-mudslide-xinhua-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=60796","title":{"rendered":"Tibet&#8217;s Gyirong suffers &#8216;major casualties&#8217; from mudslide, Xinhua reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIJING, Aug 26 &#8211; Many people were feared dead or missing \u200bafter a mudslide hit major \u200cborder crossing between China and Nepal in Tibet&#8217;s Gyirong county on Wednesday, Chinese \u200bstate news agency Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;At \u200bapproximately 10:30 AM (0230 GMT) on August \u206026, due to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/nepal-flash-flood-washes-away-villages-project-sites-near-tibet-border-2026-08-26\/\">mudslide<\/a>&nbsp;occurring \u200bon the Nepalese side, major casualties \u200band missing persons were caused at the Gyirong Port in Gyirong County, Shigatse City, \u200bTibet,&#8221; Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Xi Jinping \u200burged &#8220;all-out&#8221; efforts to search for the missing, and \u200ccalled \u2060for strengthening monitoring and early warning systems to prevent secondary disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roads leading to the Gyirong Port land \u200bcrossing on \u200bthe \u2060Chinese side as well as communications and power supplies \u200bwere cut off, and search \u200band \u2060rescue work was underway, Xinhua said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crossing was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/nepal-flash-flood-washes-away-villages-project-sites-near-tibet-border-2026-08-26\/\">hit by an earlier \u2060mudslide<\/a>&nbsp;\u200bjust over a year \u200bago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) BEIJING, Aug 26 &#8211; Many people were feared dead or missing \u200bafter a mudslide hit major \u200cborder crossing between China and Nepal in Tibet&#8217;s Gyirong county on Wednesday, Chinese \u200bstate news agency Xinhua reported. &#8220;At \u200bapproximately 10:30 AM (0230 GMT) on August \u206026, due to a&nbsp;mudslide&nbsp;occurring \u200bon the Nepalese side, major casualties \u200band missing persons were caused at the Gyirong Port in Gyirong County, Shigatse City, \u200bTibet,&#8221; Xinhua reported. President Xi Jinping \u200burged &#8220;all-out&#8221; efforts to search for the missing, and \u200ccalled \u2060for strengthening monitoring and early warning systems to prevent secondary disasters. Roads leading to the Gyirong Port&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60798,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60796\/revisions\/60798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}