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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent

Chinese control of information hampers assessment of Tibet flood damage

Rescue workers and vehicles  on a muddy bank by a raging ricer
Search and rescue operations in Shigatse, Tibet, on Friday. Photograph: China News Service/Getty

In the days since an enormous glacier in the Himalayas snapped away from a mountaintop and cascaded into the valley below, the true scale of the devastation caused by the flash floods in Nepal and Tibet is still unfolding.

But the picture is emerging far more quickly in Nepal than in China, where strict controls on the flow of information from one of its most sensitive regions are hampering the public’s understanding of events.

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