{"id":36145,"date":"2013-03-30T12:52:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T10:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=36145"},"modified":"2013-03-30T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T10:52:45","slug":"tibet-landslide-no-survivors-bodies-found-by-rescuers-yet-36145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/tibet-landslide-no-survivors-bodies-found-by-rescuers-yet-36145\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibet landslide: No survivors, bodies found by rescuers yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36146\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36146\" alt=\"Rescuers busy in rescue work in Tibet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/China-Landslides-Nationalturk-30.jpg\" width=\"414\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/China-Landslides-Nationalturk-30.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/China-Landslides-Nationalturk-30-280x208.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rescuers busy in rescue work in Tibet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>The hopes of recovering the trapped miners in a gold mine in China&#8217;s Tibet autonomous region is fading fast as rescue workers have not found any survivor, bodies found by rescuers yet.<\/h1>\n<p>Beijing, March 30\/Nationalturk-: The rescuers have not found any survivor or bodies of the miners, who were buried in a gold mine in China&#8217;s Tibet autonomous region after a massive landslide struck on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, a major landslide hit a mining area in Tibet yesterday, burying 83 workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe landslide occurred at about 0600 hours local time in Maizhokunggar County of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The victims were workers from Tibet Huatailong Mining Development Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of the China National Gold Group Corporation,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The affected area of the landslide is 3 kilometers long, with about 2 million cubic meters of mud, rock and debris.<\/p>\n<h2>Over 1000 people involved in rescue operation<\/h2>\n<p>Over 1000 rescuers, including police, firefighters and medical personnel, have launched a rescue operation at the site, which is at an altitude of 4,600 meters. \u201cAbout 200 large vehicles and equipment, 15 sniffer dogs and 15 life-detector machines are being used in the rescue operations,\u201d local officials said.<\/p>\n<p>They said five excavators, five pick-up trucks and an SUV were also buried in the debris. \u201cThe rescue operation will be very difficult due to the size of the affected area\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said till this (Saturday) afternoon, the rescuers have not yet found survivors or bodies. \u201cThe chances of finding the trapped workers alive is fading fast,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk China\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hopes of recovering the trapped miners in a gold mine in China&#8217;s Tibet autonomous region is fading fast as rescue workers have not found any survivor, bodies found by rescuers yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,14],"tags":[39586,12804,2381,48862,48869,48866,11774,48859,48870,48861,48860,48864,48858,48867,48865,48863,20379,48857,48868,6771,23988],"class_list":["post-36145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-world","tag-bodies","tag-buried","tag-china","tag-china-national-gold-group-corporation","tag-debris","tag-excavators","tag-firefighters","tag-gold-mine","tag-lhasa","tag-maizhokunggar-county","tag-massive-landslide","tag-medical-personnel","tag-miners","tag-pick-up-trucks","tag-rescue-operation","tag-rescue-workers","tag-rescuers","tag-survivor","tag-suv","tag-tibet","tag-tibet-autonomous-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}