Chinese rescuers continued searching for survivors from this week’s devastating floods along the border with Nepal as the operation passed a critical 72-hour window.On Saturday morning, engineers and workers started clearing away mud and debris using excavators and heavy earth-moving machinery in an effort to reopen the route to a border checkpoint in Gyirong, Tibet.Many of the frontline workers involved had taken part in another rescue operation in July last year, when the region was hit by a mudslide that washed away a bridge, state broadcaster CCTV reported.On Friday night, an advance team of eight firefighters was forced to pull back to a safe zone because of fears the lake would burst its banks, but the water level remained stable on Saturday.The lake, which CCTV said was around 100,000 square metres (1 million sq ft), equivalent to 14 standard football pitches, is being monitored by radars and drones.
China-Nepal floods: rescue operations continue under threat of lake collapse
Chinese emergency response teams are trying to clear the area around the Tibetan border crossing that was destroyed by a mudslide.
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