Rescuers have shifted their focus to resettling survivors, and quilts, stoves and other relief items were being delivered Wednesday to people whose homes were uninhabitable or unsafe
Rescue workers conduct search and rescue for survivors in the aftermath of an earthquake in Changsuo Township of Dingri in Xigaze, southwestern China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Jan. 7.Rescuers in the freezing, high-altitude Tibet region in western China searched a second day for any remaining victims of aMore tents, quilts, stoves and other relief items were being delivered Wednesday to people whose homes were uninhabitable or unsafe.
The earthquake struck an outlying county in the city of Shigatse, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism. It was not immediately known whether he was in his Tashi Lhunpo Monastery at the time or how much damage Tibet’s second-largest city sustained. The epicentre was about 25 kilometres from the main part of the city, which is called Xigaze in Chinese and sprawls across a high altitude plain.
Guo expressed confidence that the people in the earthquake zone will be able to rebuild under “the strong leadership” of China’s ruling Communist Party. The death toll from the quake included at least 22 of the 222 residents of Gurum, the official Xinhua News Agency cited the village’s Communist Party chief, Tsering Phuntsog, as saying. The victims included his 74-year-old mother, and several other of his relatives remained buried in the debris.
More than 3,600 houses collapsed, according to a preliminary survey, and 46,000 residents had been relocated, state media said.
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