Chinese rescuers manage to reach core disaster zone 50 hrs after flood

Rescuers from China reach core disaster zone 50hrs after flood More than 50 hours after Wednesday’s flash flood, Chinese professional rescuers reached the core disaster zone around Gyirong dry port on Nepal-Tibet border for the first time on Friday afternoon, using inflatable boats, mountain trails, ropes and heavy-lift drones to bypass obliterated roads. Twenty-one firefighters — six from Tibet and 15 from Sichuan — along with a search dog reached the border-gate area around 4.30pm, hours after an overflowing barrier lake upstream forced rescuers to withdraw to safer ground. The breakthrough came after rescuers adopted what China’s national fire and…