At least seven people have been killed and 22 others injured in Tibet as the earthquake that hit Sikkim and other north-eastern states in India also rocked the Chinese autonomous province leaving trail of destruction. The earthquake has caused hundreds of landslides that have disrupted traffic, power and water supplies, as well as telecommunications in Yadong County, Tibet, which is 40 km away from Sikkim, the epicentre of the 6.9-magnitude quake.
Local authorities in Xigaze Prefecture, who administers Yadong, have mobilised workers to use heavy machinery to clear debris from major roads in
order to ensure the expedient transport of relief supplies, state-run Xinhua reported on Monday. The road traffic resumed on Monday. The road
traffic to the Himalayan county resumed on Monday.
Dianzin Namgyai, secretary of the Xigaze Prefecture committee of the Communist Party of China, visited victims in Galingang Village, one of the
worst hit in the quake. He said all 156 houses in the village were damaged, leaving villagers homeless.
— PTI