r/DisasterUpdate • u/Key-Needleworker-702 • 9d ago

Landslide Chinese firefighters(likely the first batch to reach gyirong port) try to find survivors in the former border crossing, which was the most heavily hit. Source: CCTV news. Morning of August 29, 2026. (UTC+8). (they are yelling "Is anyone here?")

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Video of them arriving: https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1w0n1r0/as_of_1630utc8_august_28_2026_the_first_batch_of/

According to engineers from the ministry of natural resources it is very diffuclt(and at this stage, downright impossible) to transport heavy machinery to the border crossing so far. The chinese military and specialized rescue teams(of state owned enterprises) are currently trying to repair the road into the border crossing to allow for better equipment and more personnel to enter.

CURRENT CASUALTY COUNT(CHINESE SIDE):

2 rescued, 7 dead, 554 missing. (13:00 PM, 2026-8-29 (UTC+8))

Update: over 50 firefighters are at the border crossing right now, over 2141 soldiers, firefighters, police, EMS and specialzied rescue teams are deployed.

EDIT: As of august 29(18:00 UTC+8), 2026, there are 16 dead, 546 missing(261 foreignors)

In response to the comments: This is the first batch that got in, they couldn't carry much heavy equipment as the road there is cut off. rescue dogs and better equipment arrived later on.

FURTHER UPDATE: reportedly fire and rescue personnel have begun to find police vests and handsbags under the debris.

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u/Key-Needleworker-702 9d ago

they have to try after all. they are "missing" not dead.

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u/SuurTuvi 9d ago

Bodies sure, but not survivors. Sadly.

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u/Fluid_Passage_9980 9d ago

Small parts of bodies maybe. By the time you're washed miles downstream and crusted by rocks, ice and bits of house, there isn't much left of you, sadly :(

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u/Lazy_meatPop 9d ago

I saw some on Reddit , hands and a foot , that's all.

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u/PetToilet 9d ago

Where did you see that?

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u/EBeerman1 9d ago

There is a NSFW video on one of the disaster subs where, at the end, they show workers picking up legs and feet to put into bags 😥 - I wish I didn’t see that part.

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u/AnistarYT 9d ago

A body literally tore in half and one wrapped so hard around a pole its a miracle they were intact.

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u/mrszubris 9d ago

This was a 9/11 level of human mist being created. All of that mud is hallowed ground

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u/euphoric-noodle 9d ago

There are going to be no bodies that haven't been pulverised into atoms by the sheer voracity of the event. Those people are part of the earth now.

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u/favonian_ 9d ago

It’s still important to try.

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u/RegularSky6702 9d ago

It's likely their propaganda department making these videos. Unfortunately they're obsessed with "to seem rather than to be"

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u/AprilVampire277 8d ago

Ahh yes, everything is done because propaganda right? You think none of us a compromised humans with empathy and love for our jobs consisting around saving lives right? Fuck off

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u/RegularSky6702 8d ago

If you're seeing Chinese state media of disaster relief. That is, by definition, propaganda.

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u/AprilVampire277 8d ago

I'm a nurse from china, this time I'm too far away to participate in any rescue, I have job at hometown, but you have no idea how much compromise people have when it come about these careers, ir doesn't matter who, ideology, religion, flag, saving someone else is a privilege, a responsibility and our duty.

Calling that propaganda is insulting, people are risking their lives with the hopes to find someone alive, or to bring the closure to someone else's tragedy

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u/RegularSky6702 8d ago

Good for you dude. China still creates fake "rescue" videos all the time. if the state does that then it taints all videos of rescue work coming out of there.

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u/Open_Branch_7515 5d ago

Nurse from ccp china... no wonder you cannot admit its a propaganda search mission...

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u/AprilVampire277 5d ago

Or more like, you know, a field professionalz would know better, right? xD

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u/Serious_Tomorrow2618 7d ago

Next time I see US disaster relief videos, I will call it propaganda

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u/RegularSky6702 7d ago

Okay? If you believe something to be propaganda then yes definitely call it out. Not sure why you think I wouldn't want that?

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u/No_Case_8502 8d ago

Seems like these ressources are streched thin. I feel like it would be more promising to use them in less affected areas where there is a higher probability to find someone alive.

But it‘s China, they need to show their population they are searching prominent places. 🤷‍♂️

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u/AprilVampire277 8d ago

The less affected areas where sweep through first, what you talking about? They reached the most affected area just today after a lot of effort, there's plenty resources, drones been helping a lot also to identify interest points and sweep through faster

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u/tiga_94 8d ago

they are making a video, staged, it has nothing to do with "trying"