More than 50 hours after Wednesday’s flash flood, Chinese professional rescuers reached the core disaster zone around Gyirong dry port on Nepal-Tibet border for the first time on Friday afternoon, using inflatable boats, mountain trails, ropes and heavy-lift drones to bypass obliterated roads. Twenty-one firefighters — six from Tibet and 15 from Sichuan — along with a search dog reached the border-gate area around 4.30pm, hours after an overflowing barrier lake upstream forced rescuers to withdraw to safer ground.
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