{"id":412388,"date":"2023-01-21T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T08:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=412388"},"modified":"2023-01-21T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T08:17:15","slug":"tibet-avalanche-death-toll-hits-28-as-rescue-operation-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/tibet-avalanche-death-toll-hits-28-as-rescue-operation-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibet avalanche death toll hits 28 as rescue operation completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) &#8211; Chinese authorities have confirmed that the death toll in a avalanche in China\u2019s southern Tibet region climbed to 28 after eight more bodies were found at the site on Friday, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>A deadly avalanche hit the city of Nyingchi in southwest China&#8217;s Tibet Autonomous Region Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The search and rescue operation has been almost completed, the Chinese daily Global Times quoted the local authorities as saying.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the public security bureau in Nyingchi&#8217;s Medog county said that they had received calls about an avalanche at an exit of the Doxong La tunnel on the highway connecting Medog with Pai village in Nyingchi&#8217;s Mainling county at around 7:50 p.m. local time (1150GMT), trapping people and vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities immediately dispatched 131 personnel and 28 vehicles to the scene overnight to rescue the victims.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) &#8211; Chinese authorities have confirmed that the death toll in a avalanche in China\u2019s southern Tibet region climbed to 28 after eight more bodies were found at the site on Friday, according to local media. A deadly avalanche hit the city of Nyingchi in southwest China&#8217;s Tibet Autonomous Region Tuesday. The search and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":412389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-412388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412390,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412388\/revisions\/412390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}