China Ministry of Transport: The rural roads leading to the severe earthquake -stricke

Earthquakes occurred at Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu and Qinghai, China, and the rural roads leading to the hardest hit areas have been seized.

According to the China News Agency, the Ministry of Transportation of China on Tuesday (December 19) was reported by the Ministry of Transport, and the rural roads in the severe earthquake in Gansu and Qinghai Province have been seized.

The Ministry of Transport continues to maintain a level II emergency response. As of 19:00 on the 19th, all highways and national provinces in Gansu Province and Qinghai Province are unblocked.Personnel, supplies, and vehicles can reach the disaster area smoothly.

After the earthquake disaster, the Ministry of Transport continues to deploy to grab and seizure, earthquake relief, disaster loss assessment, information release, etc., and send eight experts to the scene to support them.The team is standing.Open emergency green channels and exempt emergency rescue vehicles.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Transport said that in the next step, the transportation system will continue to do a good job of rescue and disaster relief work, focusing on the section of the section of the road; organize the testing and monitoring of important transportation infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels as soon as possibleSafety inspection to prevent secondary disasters; do a good job in the protection of earthquake rescue supplies and transportation protection of people's biological materials.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred late at night in Gansu Province, Gansu Province, China, causing at least 127 people to be killed and nearly 800 injuries.

This is an earthquake with the largest number of victims after the earthquake in Yunnan, which caused 617 people to be killed in August 2014.The last strong earthquake in Gansu was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Dingxi City in July 2013. At that time, 95 people were killed.

China News Weekly quoted Wang Du, the captain of the Sky Disaster Rescue Center of Gansu, said that the biggest challenge of this rescue was low temperature.At present, the local minimum temperature is over minus 10 degrees. The trapped persons are facing greater risks. Gold rescue time is shorter than the conventional 72 hours.