China News Service, Urumqi, July 8 (Reporter Sun Tingwen, Cheng Yong) On July 6, a rare torrential rain suddenly fell in Village 6, Kekeya Township, Yecheng County, Kashgar, Xinjiang, causing a major mudslide and landslide. Officials in Xinjiang said in the early morning of the 8 th that 35 people have been killed.
Village 6, Kekeya Township, Yecheng County, Kashgar is located in a remote mountainous area in the hinterland of Kunlun Mountain, more than 170 kilometers away from the county seat. The instantaneous debris flow caused by torrential rain is nearly 1,500 cubic meters per second, causing some villagers’ houses to be buried, roads, electricity and communication facilities to be completely destroyed, and contact with the outside world to be completely interrupted, which brings great difficulties to disaster verification and rescue work. Disaster relief personnel can only ride donkeys or walk to the disaster site.
After the disaster occurred, Xinjiang launched the emergency plan at the first time and sent a working group to Yecheng. Rescuers from local transportation, health, civil affairs, water conservancy and other departments rushed to the disaster area overnight with living materials to carry out flood fighting and disaster relief, and consoled the affected people.
The reporter learned from the fourth detachment of the Armed Police Traffic Force in the early morning of the 8 th that after the mudslide disaster occurred in the 6 th village of Kekeya Township, Yecheng County, Xinjiang, the detachment immediately launched an emergency response mechanism and urgently dispatched troops to rescue.
At 17: 00 on the 7th, the Fourth Traffic Detachment of the Armed Police sent an advance team of the Fourth Brigade stationed in Yecheng to the affected area. After investigation, about 200 meters away from the disaster site was covered by debris flow. Village 6 of Kekeya Township is located in the hinterland of Kunlun Mountain, about 170 kilometers away from Yecheng County.
According to the needs of the disaster, the fourth detachment of the Armed Police Traffic Force rushed to the rescue from Yecheng, Xinjiang and Ali, Xizang.
Yecheng County is located in the southwest of Xinjiang, more than 1,500 kilometers away from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, and 260 kilometers away from Kashgar. It is bordered by the Karakorum Mountains and Kunlun Mountains in the south, the Taklimakan Desert in the north, and the upper reaches of the Yarkand River. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north.
At present, the rescue and relief work is being carried out in an orderly manner, and the affected people have been properly resettled.