Exiles express solidarity with Tibet landslide victims

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

IANS
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, policemen and residents carry the body of a landslide victim in Zhouqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Gansu Province, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. Floods and landslides across Asia plunged millions into misery Sunday as rubble-strewn waters killed over a hundred people in northwestern China and 4 million Pakistanis faced food shortages amid their country's worst-ever flooding. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Gao Jianjun)

Dharamsala-- The Tibetan government-in-exile Monday expressed solidarity with the families of those who died in the devastating floods in China.

At least 127 people were killed and 45,000 people affected after landslides triggered by torrential rains hit Zhouqu county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture early Sunday.

'The Kashag (cabinet) offers its deep condolence to the surviving relatives and pray for their quick emotional and physical recovery both in terms of health and reconstruction,' said an official statement released here.

'The Kashag is organising a special prayer session Tuesday at Tsuglagkhang (temple at McLeodganj) to pray for the deceased and early recovery of those injured,' added the statement.

The rescue headquarters in Zhouqu estimated that 1,294 people were missing. Earlier the provincial civil affairs department had put the figure of missing people at nearly 2,000, Xinhua news agency reported from Beijing Monday.