Extreme cold weather caused seven workers in Altay, Xinjiang to be killed

The People's Government of Altay, Xinjiang, China issued a notification late at night on Monday (28th). The extremely cold weather caused seven local workers in the local area to be killed.

According to China CCTV News, the People's Government of the Altay City of Xinjiang has reported that since November 20, the strongest regional cold weather has suffered in the past 10 years, and extreme weather processes such as wind, snow, and cooling have occurred.At about 23:00 on November 26, the Altay City Public Security Bureau received an alarm that the National Highway G217 Line Abu Highway No. 1 Contract section section of the General Contracting Department of the General Contract Department of K58 Station was lost due to the loss of extreme disasters and requested rescue.

At 11:10 on November 27th, the police successively found the eight lost persons and sent it to the hospital immediately. Among them, one person's life signs smoothly, and seven people were unfortunately killed.

The announcement introduced that due to the suspension of the project construction, the workers were preparing to return to their hometowns, and the project construction unit then arranged to transfer 14 workers inside the station to the town of Alahak.At 19 o'clock on November 26, 14 people at the station took two vehicles to the town of Alahak about 4 kilometers away from K58.After the vehicle departed, due to the influence of extreme weather, it was suffering from the cars on the G217 National Road section. After the car was rescued by himself, he arrived at Alahak town at 21:30.

A group of eight people departed at 19:10 and encountered a trap at about 500 meters from the departure station.After the personnel on the vehicle and the leader phone negotiated, they decided to abandon the car and carry their luggage and return to the stations.According to the person in charge of the site station, at 20:30, the weather in the area was extremely intensifying, the wind gradually increased, the temperature dropped sharply, the vehicle light visibility was less than three meters, and the snow and snow caused some snow thickness to be more than one meter.Blizzard and cold waves were overlapping, which caused workers to lose because they lost their way when they returned to the stations.