Vehicles are waiting to ship relief supplies on Oct 12. (Photo/Xinhua)
At 11 am Thursday, the water flow in the monitoring station 90 kilometers upstream from the barrier lake was 1,320 cubic meters per second. Water flow in the station 70 kilometers downstream from the lake, however, dropped from 1,900 cubic m/s at 8 pm on Wednesday to only 200 cubic m/s, said the authority.
Changjiang Water Resources Commission said it has asked monitoring stations to report data every 10 minutes.
The scale of the landslide is vast and several bridges, fields and villages were affected. Bolo township, where the landslide occurred, has been isolated after a bridge to the township was inundated, Qamdo authorities said.
"The local government is continuing the transportation of daily necessities, including beds and food, to the affected area and currently there have been enough to meet the needs of the evacuees," said Tanpa Yarphel, a senior official with the Jomda county government, where Bolo township is located.
While all residents in the affected area have been evacuated, searches are ongoing along the river to ensure no one has been left behind.
Sodnam Wangchug, Party chief of Bolo township, said they have constructed four shelters to accommodate evacuees and four doctors have been dispatched to the shelters.
Tsering Lhamo, a local resident, said they are staying in a tent and have enough to eat. "We are at ease now," he said. The incident has triggered an emergency response from the Ministry of Emergency Management.
