Search and rescue teams were deployed to Gyirong County in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on 29 August 2026 after a fast-moving chain mudslide struck a China-Nepal border port, reportedly causing heavy casualties and leaving many people missing.
A fast-moving chain mudslide engulfed a port on the China-Nepal border in Gyirong County on 29 August 2026, according to reports, with rescuers launching an all-out effort to reach the affected area and account for the missing.
The mudslide was reportedly triggered by a high-altitude glacier collapse on the Nepalese side of the border, sending debris cascading into Gyirong County, Xizang Autonomous Region, and hitting a key cross-border port on 29 August 2026.
The mudslide at the China-Nepal border port in Gyirong County reportedly caused heavy casualties and left many people missing as of 29 August 2026, with the full scale of the disaster still being assessed by emergency responders on the ground.
Authorities in Xizang Autonomous Region immediately launched an all-out rescue effort to reach the mudslide-hit Gyirong border port and search for the missing, according to reports from 29 August 2026.
Video footage from 29 August 2026 captured rescue personnel working through debris at the mudslide-hit area in Gyirong County, as China's emergency teams pressed on with efforts to locate survivors at the stricken China-Nepal border port.
Rescue teams in Gyirong County raced against time to locate survivors after the chain mudslide overwhelmed the border port on 29 August 2026, with video clips showing personnel navigating heavily debris-covered terrain in the Xizang Autonomous Region.
Rescue workers were photographed combing through mudslide debris in Gyirong County, Xizang Autonomous Region, on 29 August 2026, as teams worked to account for all those reported missing following the glacier-triggered disaster at the border port.
Multiple emergency response teams were deployed across the Gyirong County mudslide site on 29 August 2026, conducting coordinated search operations at the China-Nepal border port hit by the glacier-collapse-triggered chain mudslide in Xizang.
Rescue personnel continued operations at the Gyirong County border port in Xizang Autonomous Region on 29 August 2026, pressing the search for those still missing after the fast-moving mudslide — reportedly set off by a glacier collapse on the Nepalese side — struck the crossing.
An individual rescuer was photographed conducting search operations amid the mudslide wreckage in Gyirong County, Xizang Autonomous Region, on 29 August 2026 — a scene reflecting the scale of the response to the China-Nepal border disaster triggered by a high-altitude glacier collapse.