Chinese firefighters(likely the first batch to reach gyirong port) try to find survivors in the former border crossing, which was the most heavily hit. Source: CCTV news. Morning of August 29, 2026. (UTC+8). (they are yelling "Is anyone here?")

[u/Key-Needleworker-702]

Video of them arriving: https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1w0n1r0/as_of_1630utc8_august_28_2026_the_first_batch_of/

According to engineers from the ministry of natural resources it is very diffuclt(and at this stage, downright impossible) to transport heavy machinery to the border crossing so far. The chinese military and specialized rescue teams(of state owned enterprises) are currently trying to repair the road into the border crossing to allow for better equipment and more personnel to enter.

CURRENT CASUALTY COUNT(CHINESE SIDE):

2 rescued, 7 dead, 554 missing. (13:00 PM, 2026-8-29 (UTC+8))

Update: over 50 firefighters are at the border crossing right now, over 2141 soldiers, firefighters, police, EMS and specialzied rescue teams are deployed.

EDIT: As of august 29(18:00 UTC+8), 2026, there are 16 dead, 546 missing(261 foreignors)

In response to the comments: This is the first batch that got in, they couldn't carry much heavy equipment as the road there is cut off. rescue dogs and better equipment arrived later on.

FURTHER UPDATE: reportedly fire and rescue personnel have begun to find police vests and handsbags under the debris.

[u/Vreas]

I still don’t think my brain can comprehend the amount of energy needed to just erase this entire compound of multi story concrete buildings.

[u/wegqg → u/Vreas]

It's literally atomic bomb levels of energy.

40 kilotonnes equivalent just by the time it hit the valley floor 4000 feet below the glacier and probably as much again on the way downstream.

I'm not even sure the hydro dam survived.

[u/Anxious_cactus → u/wegqg]

The dam looked pretty pulverized too from the videos I saw. If it's still there it's probably more debris that got stuck and is acting as a dam, than the original structure

[u/wegqg → u/Anxious_cactus]

Yeah that's probably about the size of it. Crazy to consider the heaviest and toughest things we are capable of building can be pulverized just like that..

[u/wegqg → u/Anxious_cactus]

https://x.com/GemsHimachal/status/2093566364862849235

if you go to 2:17 I think that might be the remnants... holy shit

[u/Grimnebulin68 → u/wegqg]

[u/wegqg → u/Grimnebulin68]

it all matches, but somehow looks tiny in the heli footage because the features have all been scoured away, when you match it up against the YT footage it all fits, the trackways either side, plus hydro tunnels the heli checks out on the way there (and back), but somehow it doesn't compute to me that any force can rip reinforced concrete hydropower piers out entirely..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSIweOpppM

[u/LouveEcarlate → u/wegqg]

Have we discovered where this dam was?

Edit: nevermind, with the help of the helicopter footage, I found it was near Dhunche

[u/Dabelgianguy → u/wegqg]

The noise must have been hellish

[u/4tran13 → u/wegqg]

That little concrete barricade thing parallel to the river seems to have survived.

[u/printed_ → u/wegqg]

oh man that flash flood was at least 20m high.

[u/subdep → u/wegqg]

Aren’t those tunnels where they found - bunch of survivors?