On the morning of August 26, Gyirong Port in Gyirong county, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, was hit by a severe landslide that occurred on the Nepalese side of the border.

The principal of a school near Nepal's Trishuli River was able to inform the 900 students inside the building to find safety as the massive flood tore through the region on Aug. 26.

Nepal holds a national day of mourning Monday to mourn the victims of the deadly mudslide, with President Ram Chandra Poudel calling for continued search and rescue efforts and national unity in the face of the disaster.

Even with prior knowledge of the catastrophe, Brazilian journalist Bruno Falci Bitarelli Medeiros was struck by the harsh rescue conditions after a bumpy 12-hour bus ride from Lhasa to the mudslide-hit Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.The final stretch wound through rugged

A widely used Chinese proverb, "tong zhou gong ji," expresses hope that people should pull together in times of troubles.

The source of the recent ice-rock avalanche and mudslide disaster in Gyirong County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, was located on the northern slope of Nepal's Langtang Lirung peak, which posed a major challenge for monitoring and early warning, experts said at a media briefing on

Foreign journalists shared their first impressions after visiting the core disaster area of Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, where a massive mudslide triggered by a high-altitude glacier collapse in Nepal swept through the area on August 26.

The identities of some of the victims in the mudslide that struck Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Aug. 26 have been confirmed, the mudslide emergency rescue command center announced Monday.Forty-three people had been confirmed dead and 519 others remained missing as of

A fast-moving chain mudslide, triggered by a high-altitude glacier collapse in Nepal, struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Aug. 26, causing heavy casualties and leaving many missing.

The location of Gyirong Port in Gyirong County, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, was determined by historical factors, acting mayor of Xizang's Xigaze City Norbu Tsering said at a press conference held by the emergency rescue command center on Sunday, CCTV News reported.

Local authorities have rolled out comprehensive cross‑border humanitarian and information‑sharing measures at a Chinese‑foreign media briefing on the August 26 mudslide in Gyirong County, Xizang Autonomous Region.China has set up dedicated communication channels for foreign nationals' families and

China has provided assistance to 1,720 Nepalese border residents after a mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Aug. 26, the emergency response and rescue headquarters said on Sunday.

43 people had been confirmed dead and 519 others remained missing as of 6 p.m. Saturday after a mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Aug. 26, local emergency response and rescue authorities said on Sunday.

With access to Gyirong Port now restored, authorities are stepping up monitoring for potential secondary disasters along the rescue route and at the disaster site to ensure safe rescue operations following a mudslide that struck Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on August

At 10:52 a.m. Beijing time on August 26, a glacier collapsed high in the Himalayas. Six to seven minutes later, the ice-rock avalanche it unleashed flattened Gyirong Port in China's Xizang Autonomous Region — then kept going, surging downstream into Nepal.

With access to Gyirong Port now restored, authorities are stepping up monitoring for potential secondary disasters along the rescue route and at the disaster site to ensure safe rescue operations following a mudslide that struck Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.

A Chinese national who had been trapped for 10 days in northern Nepal following the August 26 mudslide was rescued from a tunnel on Saturday.

A fast-moving chain mudslide, triggered by a high-altitude glacier collapse in Nepal, struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Aug. 26, causing heavy casualties and leaving many missing.

A new study has uncovered the mechanisms behind the devastating mudslide that struck Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on August 26, finding that the disaster was not triggered by heavy rain but by glacial instability amplified along a 22‑km path.

Currently, the barrier lake above the core area of the mudslide-hit Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region has been drained, the river channel has returned to normal flow, and the associated hazard has been largely eliminated, according to the region's emergency management depart