At flood-destroyed China-Nepal border, no sign of a once-busy port — Reuters witnesses

🇨🇳 The Straits Times (CN) —
At flood-destroyed China-Nepal border, no sign of a once-busy port — Reuters witnesses

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A massive mudslide at the China-Nepal border has destroyed the main border crossing, prompting rescue efforts by about 20 Chinese workers using heavy equipment to find hundreds missing. The disaster has severely disrupted the once-busy port area between the two countries.

GYIRONG, China, Sept 6 - About 20 Chinese rescue workers in bright orange worked excavators, shovels and radar detectors on Sunday in an effort to find hundreds of people missing since a tsunami-like mudslide wiped out China’s main border crossing with Nepal.

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