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Rescue underway in Inner Mongolia after flash flood

By Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan 3 min read

Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.

Rescue underway in Inner Mongolia after flash flood

Firefighters search for missing individuals in Urad Rear Banner of Bayannur City, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Aug. 18, 2025. The death toll from a flash flood that swept through a wild camping site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has risen to ten, with two people still missing, local emergency authorities said on Sunday.

More than 700 rescuers have been promptly dispatched to the site, urgently searching for the missing. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)

Firefighters search for missing individuals in Urad Rear Banner of Bayannur City, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Aug. 18, 2025. The death toll from a flash flood that swept through a wild camping site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has risen to ten, with two people still missing, local emergency authorities said on Sunday.

More than 700 rescuers have been promptly dispatched to the site, urgently searching for the missing. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)

This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2025 shows the rescue site for missing individuals from a flash flood in Urad Rear Banner of Bayannur City, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The death toll from a flash flood that swept through a wild camping site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has risen to ten, with two people still missing, local emergency authorities said on Sunday.

More than 700 rescuers have been promptly dispatched to the site, urgently searching for the missing. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)

A firefighter searches for missing individuals in Urad Rear Banner of Bayannur City, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Aug. 18, 2025. The death toll from a flash flood that swept through a wild camping site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has risen to ten, with two people still missing, local emergency authorities said on Sunday.

More than 700 rescuers have been promptly dispatched to the site, urgently searching for the missing. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)

A drone photo taken on Aug. 18, 2025 shows the rescue site for missing individuals from a flash flood in Urad Rear Banner of Bayannur City, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The death toll from a flash flood that swept through a wild camping site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has risen to ten, with two people still missing, local emergency authorities said on Sunday.

More than 700 rescuers have been promptly dispatched to the site, urgently searching for the missing.

Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20250818/f3a9ecca3cf54ea2b62af04860b1f262/c.html

Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…

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