| More than 200 herdsmen in Ali prefecture of Tibet autonomous region have been rescued and relocated from extreme weather conditions, with no casualties reported.
Zhang Zhishuang, an official with the eighth detachment of Armed Police in Tibet said: “The unit reacted quickly to the emergency. We took 12 hours to break through to 53 stranded Tibetan families, and successfully rescued everyone.”
The unit has now withdrawn from the area.
More than 200 herdsmen and some 1,000 heads of livestock had been stranded by strong snowfall in Ali prefecture, the local armed police said Sunday.
The week-long snowfall accumulated to about 30 centimeters on the ground in Pulan County of Ali, with some areas suffering from more than a meter of snowfall according to Xing Xiuyin, head of an armed police detachment stationed in the region.
Heavy snow cut off the roads connecting some townships in the county.
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