Exile Tibetan leader urges free access, open information on Nagchu earthquake disaster

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(TibetanReview.net, Oct23’26) – Sikyong Penpa Tsering, the executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has expressed fears Oct 23 that the casualty and damage from the powerful, 7.0-magnitude earthquake which shook northern Tibet’s Nagchu City in the night of Oct 22 could be greater than being reported by China’s state media, citing limited access to and information from the affected region.

Latest Chinese state media reports say the earthquake has killed 16 people and injured 76 others, some of them seriously, while over 339 buildings have been damaged or destroyed, with 12,489 residents evacuated.

Expressing deep sorrow and grave concern over the devastating earthquake, the Ti...

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