西藏那曲市巴青县7.0级地震抢险救援工作抓紧进行

CCTV.com reports (Xinwen Lianbo): Emergency rescue efforts are being urgently carried out following the magnitude-7.0 earthquake in Baqing County, Nagqu, Tibet. As of 1 p.m. on October 23, the magnitude-7.0 earthquake in Baqing County, Nagqu, Tibet, had killed 16 people and injured 76.

The earthquake had a high magnitude and a shallow focus. Some houses in the core area around the epicenter collapsed, and power and communications facilities were damaged. Following the earthquake, Tibet deployed more than 5,000 personnel from various rescue forces, with rescuers checking and searching house by house and site by site. The Western Theater Command's Joint Operations Command Center directed its subordinate troops to affected villages and towns. The Tibet Military Command and the Tibet Contingent of the People's Armed Police dispatched officers and soldiers overnight to the disaster area to carry out emergency rescue operations. In the early hours of October 23, rescuers successfully freed a trapped person in Maru Township, Baqing County.

Efforts to accommodate people affected by the disaster are proceeding at the same time. Disaster relief supplies from the central, autonomous region, city, and county levels are arriving in the disaster area in batches, including prefabricated housing units, tents, quilts, and padded jackets and trousers.

In severely affected areas including Maru Township, Baqing County, 18 temporary accommodation sites have been completed, and the remaining sites are being built as quickly as possible. These sites can provide basic living necessities, medical care, and other support for those affected. More than 12,400 people have now been evacuated from the affected areas.

Treatment of the injured is being carried out urgently. Nagqu has mobilized more than 130 medical rescue personnel specializing in clinical care, emergency medicine, orthopedics, and other fields, and dispatched emergency medicines, first-aid equipment, emergency disease-control supplies, and other materials to the site at the earliest opportunity. Fast-track treatment channels have also been opened to provide targeted care for the injured.

On October 23, the Office of the State Council's Earthquake Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management raised the national earthquake emergency response from Level IV to Level III. The National Development and Reform Commission urgently allocated 30 million yuan in central budget investment to support post-disaster emergency restoration of infrastructure, public service facilities, and other facilities in the disaster area. The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management urgently allocated 50 million yuan in central natural disaster relief funds to support earthquake emergency rescue and assistance for affected people in Tibet. The Ministry of Transport dispatched a working group to the site to guide local efforts in emergency rescue and in keeping roads open and traffic flowing.