China has provided assistance to 1,720 Nepalese border residents after a mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in Xizang Autonomous Region last month, the emergency response and rescue headquarters said on Sunday.

The mudslide has left 43 people dead and 519 others missing at the border port as of 6pm on Saturday, officials told a press conference.

Many Nepalese border residents who work or do business in the county of Gyirong were stranded there after the mudslide destroyed the border port, through which they enter and leave China.

The emergency response and rescue headquarters also said China has deployed more than 2,500 people and over 500 vehicles to join rescue operations, and more than 1,000 flights of drones had air-dropped 5.43 tonnes of supplies.

In Nepal, rescuers have retrieved 1,341 bodies, while around 4,996 people remain missing, according to the country's disaster agency. (Xinhua/AFP)



Edited by Edmond Fong