Research team airlifted out of snowy mountain
By Yan Jie | China Daily | Updated: 2010-09-06 07:58
A villager walks his flock of sheep in the snow-covered Baishitou township of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Saturday. Zhu Zhenghua / for China Daily |
URUMQI - At least three members of an earthquake research expedition team were pulled out of the mountainous Xinjiang-Tibet border region by airlift on Sunday after they became severely sick with high-altitude disease.
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