Xi orders all-out rescue efforts after M7.0 earthquake in Xizang

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Local officials and residents set up emergency tents on the playground of an elementary school in Baqen County, Nagqu City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, October 23, 2026. /Xinhua

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out search and rescue efforts for the missing and prompt medical treatment for the injured after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck a county in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Thursday night.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in an important instruction, calling for every effort to minimize casualties.

Sixteen people were killed and 54 others injured after the earthquake, according to the city's emergency management bureau.

(With input from Xinhua)

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