Northwest China Hit by Record Snowfall
About 30,000 people and 2 million animals are stranded and threatened with starvation in China’s remote northwest after the heaviest snow recorded in the area’s history, the official New China News Agency said Thursday.
The people, many of them herdsmen, have been stranded without access to food and fuel since Oct. 17, when a fierce blizzard began blanketing the rugged Qinghai-Tibetan plateau with 20 inches of snow, the agency said.
A light snow was still falling over the frigid region Thursday night. Relief efforts were under way, the agency said.
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