Ulaanbaatar, February 25 (People's Daily Online) (Reporter Huo Wen) The General Directorate of Emergency Situations of Mongolia reported on the 24th that Mongolia 806% of the region suffered from snow storms, of which 218% of the area reached the level of "iron disaster" (ice disaster, ice cover due to extremely cold weather after heavy snowfall), 523% of the area reached the "white disaster" level (heavy snow-covered grasslands where livestock could not graze).
Recently, there has been a snowstorm in Mongolia. **Meng***
According to Eagle TV on February 24**, Brigadier General Uganbayar, deputy director of the General Emergency Situations Bureau of Mongolia, said on the same day that the number of livestock losses as of the 22nd reached 20090,000 heads, of which 53 were lost in Sukhbatar province90,000 heads. Of the nearly 190,000 herders in Mongolia, 7More than 20,000 herders were severely affected. Among them, nearly 40,000 herdsmen have run out of forage, nearly 8,000 herdsmen need food and drinking water, and nearly 6,000 herdsmen are short of fuel for heating and cookingMore than 30,000 herder families are in need of medical help.
Recently, there has been a snowstorm in Mongolia. **Meng***
A week ago, Mongolia was hit by the worst snowstorm in 50 years, covering 80 percent of the country's land. After the blizzard, the snow in some valleys was up to 100 centimeters thick. On February 14, Mongolia** declared that the country was on high disaster preparedness alert. Subsequently, the rescue team led by the minister was dispatched to carry out rescue in six ways, and the rescue team led by the minister carried out rescue in six routes, opened up highway passages, and sent urgently needed materials such as forage, flour, food, and medicine to the trapped herdsmen.
According to the forecast of the Mongolian meteorological department, there will be snowstorms in the western, eastern, northern and Gobi regions of the country in the next few days, which will bring greater difficulties to the relief of the pastoral areas, and the snow disasters in the pastoral areas of Mongolia will continue to worsen. At the same time, Ugan Bayar, deputy director of the General Bureau of Emergency Situations in Mongolia, also reminded that pastoral areas should do a good job in preventing flash floods that may occur after the temperature warms up in spring.