Beijing: Tourists are being warned not to travel to the Hobq desert in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, after 42 stranded visitors were rescued and one died on wednesday.
Those rescued were a group of college students from Beijing who were a part of three teams who had taken up the challenge to cross the Hobq desert in Northern China.
Police received the first distress call in the early hours of Wednesday morning. They spotted the first group 19 hours later.
The local government has reminded visitors to keep away from the seventh biggest desert in China, as police finished rescue work.
The desert, located near the Ordos City, about 800 kilometers from Beijing, is the closest desert to the nation's capital. It extends about 400 kilometers long, 50 kilometers wide on its west end, and 15-20 kilometers wide on its east end.
Since last Monday night, the command center of the Public Security Bureau of Inner Mongolia had received five "SOS" calls from the stranded visitors said a local newspaper in China.
The city government of Ordos has posted banners at every possible entrance of the desert to warn visitors against entering it, according to a local newspaper in Beijing, China.
For those who insist on entering the desert, the government is trying to arrange veteran herdsman serve as guide, the newspaper added.
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