Search for Tibet avalanche survivors ends, death toll at 28

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Rescuers search for survivors following an avalanche in Nyingchi, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. More bodies were found Friday following an avalanche that buried vehicles outside a highway tunnel in Tibet, raising the death toll more than a dozen with several people still missing. - Xinhua via AP

BEIJING Jan 21, 2023 (AFP): Search and rescue operations after a devastating avalanche that engulfed travellers on a Tibetan highway have ended, Chinese state media reported, with the death toll now at 28.

The snowslide occurred Tuesday evening at the exit of a mountain tunnel in southeastern Tibet, trapping a number of people in their vehicles.