Herdsmen rescued
NZPA-Reuter Peking Most of about 2000 Tibetan herdsmen stranded since mid-October by the biggest snows recorded on the Tibetan plateau have been rescued after a thaw, the official Xinhua News Agency reports. The agency said 1600 herdsmen had been rescued and efforts were under way
to reach the rest. It did not say if any of the herdsman who had been cut off from returning to their villages had died in the freak cold conditions. Military aircraft dropped more than 200 tonnes of food; medicine and fodder to the herdsmen. The agency said life in the affected area of northern Tibet was now returning to normal.
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