Eight people were killed in an avalanche on Paimo Highway in Linzhi, Tibet.

Paimo Highway passes through the snow and ice area of Duoxiongla Snow Mountain. According to vision china

Red Star Journalist | Li Yida, Luo, Yan Mozhen

According to Xinhua News Agency, at about 9: 50 on June 7/kloc-0, the command center of the public security bureau of Medog County in Linzhi City received an alarm from the masses that an avalanche occurred at the exit of Duoxiongla Tunnel on Paizhen-Medog Highway in Milin County, causing people and vehicles to be trapped. Up to now, search and rescue personnel have found eight victims, and the search and rescue work for the lost personnel is progressing in an orderly manner.

As of 18 and 17: 30, the emergency rescue headquarters has invested 246 professional rescue forces, as well as more than 70 vehicles of various types, 994 pieces of large machinery 10 and search and rescue equipment, and * * * dug more than 350 meters of rescue passages. The Linzhi Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government are organizing relevant departments to cooperate closely, sending more professional rescue forces, going all out to do a good job in search and rescue, and organizing personnel to do a good job in appeasement and aftermath of the families of the victims who lost contact.

Linzhi City Emergency Management Bureau:

/kloc-more than 0/000 people have participated in the rescue and have turned three times.

On the morning of June 65438+1October 19, the staff of Linzhi City Emergency Management Bureau told the Red Star journalist that the rescue force currently invested has increased compared with June 18. At present, about 30 large-scale rescue machines have been put into use, and the rescue force is about 1000 people.

Another staff member of Linzhi City Emergency Management Bureau who participated in the rescue said that the rescue is being carried out in different regions. "The main road, now I know that there are three turns have been opened. We dug in batches, with a total of 9 turns. Now we have advanced to about 4 turns here, and the rescue force is sufficient. "

Prevention and Control of Geological Disasters in Linzhi City emergency headquarters issued a notice on emergency response to snowstorms.

On-site rescue personnel:

Many vehicles were overturned by the snow, which didn't reach people's waist.

65438+ 10 19, Red Star journalist contacted a local villager Lausanne Dunzhu who had participated in the rescue. He said that on the night of the incident, he learned that his friend was trapped and rushed to the scene to rescue him.

"A friend in the county said that he would go to Medog site to work. He and another man each drive a car, and they go together. Dad calls him when he comes home at night. He said they were at the entrance of the Duoxiongla tunnel and were about to go in. After a while, I got the news that there was an avalanche. My friend didn't go, and the car was buried in the snow and couldn't be dug out, but just another person was in front of him and escaped. "

Lausanne Dunzhu said that he went to the scene after learning that his friend was trapped in an avalanche, but his friend had been killed. "People found it the night before yesterday. The snow pointed at the car and it turned over several times. People are directly under the car. When we arrived there, the township government and the Medog traffic police were present and were being rescued. "

Lausanne Dunzhu said that after the avalanche, the scene was very complicated and the road conditions were very bad. Some parts of the tunnel entrance have been buried, and the snow has not reached people's waist. "The snow is too heavy for people to stand up and walk in. If you lift this foot, the other foot will sink in, and you won't see the original road. "

Screenshot of CCTV news at the rescue site

Lausanne Dunzhu said that he saw many vehicles overturned by snow at the scene. The vehicles are scattered and the number is incalculable. "Too many, many of them are not covered by snow, and they all revolve around the sky."

Lausanne Dunzhu told reporters that at the scene of the incident, he and the local militia participated in the rescue with equipment. He found two people in the trapped vehicle, and the other one was suspected of losing temperature in the snow.

"About one hundred meters away from the tunnel exit, I found two people in the car, one and a half came out, one was in the car, the doors were deformed, and the snow directly entered the car. The car behind is lucky, and there is nothing wrong with the car and people. When you walk to the side, you still have the heating on. "

Lausanne Dunzhu said that she met a woman who escaped from the car in the tunnel and was lying alone in an avalanche. "She was there for help. We ran over and found that the injury was not serious, but she may have stayed in the snow for so long that she was almost frozen. Let's rub her hand together, rub it all the time, rub it hot and give her a bottle of red bull. Later, the fire came to save her. "

Duoxiong pull tunnel:

Through the Duoxiongla Mountain, the snow on the mountain does not melt all year round.

According to the data, the Duoxiongla Tunnel is a tunnel crossing Duoxiongla Mountain on the Paimo Highway, and the Duoxiongla Pass is located on the main ridge in the northern Himalayas, with an altitude of about 4,200 meters. The snow on the mountain does not melt all the year round. According to the Tibet Daily, Paimo Highway starts from Paizhen, Milin County, crosses Duoxiongla Mountain with an extra-long tunnel at Songlinkou, then runs along Duoxiong River, passes through Hanmi and Laohukou, and ends in jiefang bridge, Medog County, with a total length of about 66.9 kilometers.

The person in charge of the preparatory office of Huaneng Linzhi Hydropower Project said in an interview that the Mopai Highway is a major aid project of Huaneng Group, and the project started construction on August 29th, 20 14. This road crosses the Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon and is built on the hiking route from Paizhen, Milin County to Beibeng Township, Medog County. Roads are mainly arranged in no man's land, with an altitude drop of more than 2890 meters. Among them, the Paimo Highway is built in four sections, that is, the first section starts from Paizhen, Milin County and passes through Duoxiongla Mountain; The second section is from the exit of Duoxiongla Tunnel to Gamaga; The third section is from Gamajia to Ani Bridge; The fourth section is from Arnie Bridge to jiefang bridge.

The person in charge said that the first bid section of Paimo Highway is the exit section of Paizhen to Duoxiongla Tunnel, with a length of 13.438+05 km. The construction of this section started on August 29th, 20 14. The Duoxiongla Tunnel with a total length of 4,789 meters is the key project of this section, and it is constructed by double shield full-face hard rock boring machine. On February 24th, 20 17, the tunnel exit was completed, and it was completed at the end of 20 18. The exit of Duoxiongla Tunnel to Gamaga is the second bid section of Paimo Highway construction, with a length of 28.785 kilometers. Construction started on 20 18 1 10. August 3, 2020 13, this section has been fully connected. In addition, the person in charge also said that the control project of Paimo Highway mainly includes Duoxiongla Tunnel and Laohuzui Tunnel. The construction of this highway is difficult and time-consuming, which is mainly affected by geological disasters such as rainstorm in flood season, snow and ice in winter, landslide, debris flow and avalanche.