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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

At flood-destroyed China-Nepal border, no sign of a once-busy port

China: About 20 Chinese rescue workers in bright orange operated excavators, shovels and ​ground-penetrating radar detectors on Sunday in an effort ​to find hundreds of people missing since a tsunami-like mudslide destroyed China's main border crossing with ​Nepal.

The Gyirong border crossing separating China's Tibet and Nepal became a grisly emblem of the devastation that followed the collapse of a glacier on the Nepal side of the border on August 26.

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