55 rescued from snow-hit Tibet highway
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![A total of 55 people have been rescued from China's Xinjiang-Tibet Highway since Tuesday due to heavy snowfall. [Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20120210/0014222d9850109eb1ae03.jpg "A total of 55 people have been rescued from China's Xinjiang-Tibet Highway since Tuesday due to heavy snowfall. [Xinhua]") |
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A total of 55 people have been rescued from China's Xinjiang-Tibet Highway since Tuesday due to heavy snowfall. [Xinhua] |
A total of 55 people who have been stranded on west China's Xinjiang-Tibet Highway since Tuesday due to heavy snowfall have been rescued, a local rescue team said Thursday.
Traffic on the highway, which links the Tibet and Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous regions, resumed on Thursday following a rescue operation conducted by armed police, according to Zheng Jinshui, a police officer in charge of the rescue.
Continuous snowfall and temperatures as low as negative 30 degrees Celsius didn't stop the rescuers, who have cleared snow from a total 95 km of highway in Ngari prefecture, according to Zheng.
The Xinjiang-Tibet Highway is a major transport route linking Tibet to other parts of the country.
