Chinese paramilitary border policemen help local villagers affected by the 8.1-magnitude earthquake in Nepal to set up a tent in Xigaze city, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, 26 April 2015. Death toll in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has risen to 17 in the wake of the devastating earthquake that hit neighbouring Nepal on Saturday (25 April 2015), while the Communist giant on Sunday dispatched a 62-member search and rescue team to help the Himalayan nation. The temblor damaged several temples in Tibet's border area, but no casualties have been reported from there so far. Chen Quanguo, Communist Party of China chief of Tibet, has ordered to evacuate people in the quake-hit regions to avoid further deaths and injuries from aftershocks and secondary disasters. About 600 border guards are currently involved in the rescue operation in Nyalam and Gyirong. A total of 3, 204 firefighters and 87 sniffer dogs from Tibet and neighbouring provinces have also been readied to go to the quake-struck areas as a reinforcement. The authorities are sending tents, quilts, clothes, medicine and bottled water to the regions.
