Ulaanbaatar
Lost people successfully rescued
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Several people including 3 children went missing in the heavy snowstorm that hit western aimags starting on March 21, and National Emergency Management Agency was conducting search missions.
We previously reported that emergency servicemen were searching to rescue 8 persons: 33-year-old and 50-year-old men in Ulaangom soum of Uvs aimag, three children of age 10-15 in Tarialan soum of Uvs aimag, a physician and a driver who went to Kholboo soum of Umnugobi aimag on an emergency call and went missing and a 50-year-old man from Altantsugts soum of Bayan-Ulgii aimag.
On March 22, yesterday, National Emergency Management Agency reported that the missing people were found safe and sound.
As such, the heavy snowfall that covered the territories of Uvs, Zavkhan, Khuvsgul, Bayan-Ulgii, Gobi-Altai, Khentii, Bayan-Khongor and Khovd aimags has sadly taken one life, that of a 62-year-old man who originally went to help someone stuck in snow in Zavkhan aimag.
