Ten Days After Nepal Flash Floods, Chinese National Rescued From Hydropower Tunnel
Rescue teams from Nepal and South Korea pulled Luhaitao from a 225-meter tunnel as search crews kept looking for survivors.
- On Saturday, rescue teams pulled Chinese national Luhaitao alive from the Edit-4 tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project, 10 days after a massive glacier collapse and flood devastated the Himalayan valley.
- The August 26 collapse of a Himalayan glacier triggered ice, mud, and rock flows that killed more than 1,300 people, left over 5,600 missing, and trapped at least 900 in tunnels at hydropower projects.
- Nepal Army personnel also rescued 64-year-old Chandika Shrestha on Saturday in Betravati, Nuwakot after she survived 11 days buried beneath her house following the flash floods.
- Authorities transported Luhaitao to Maithili Barracks in Trishuli for medical treatment while specialized rescue teams from India, China, South Korea, and the United States continue searching through debris.
- The United Nations and its partners appealed for $50 million to deliver aid to 84,000 people affected by floods and landslides, implementing a four-month plan focused on shelter, clean water, and supplies before winter.
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BTAnother survivor has been found after the severe floods in Asia ten days ago.
On Saturday, Nepal's relief services managed to extract a Chinese citizen from a tunnel in the north of the country where he had been held prisoner since the deadly mud flow of 26 August, after a part of a glacier had collapsed. On Saturday, Nepal's Prime Minister's services announced the rescue of a 64-year-old woman, Chandrika Shrestha, who was found alive in a house in the disaster-stricken town of Betrawati.
The rescues managed to extract a third Chinese survivor from the buried tunnels in northern Nepal, which they were constantly exploring since the deadly flood of 26 August in the Himalayas (International).
Nine days after the catastrophe, two workers, Sanjay Sah, 30, and Kabir Maharjan, 45, were rescued unharmed on Friday from a tunnel of the Trishuli-3 dam.
A third survivor was able to leave the tunnel of a construction site in northern Nepal after the dramatic flooding on 26 August. A woman was also found in a houseThe rescue team managed on Saturday to extract a third survivor, of Chinese nationality, from buried tunnels in northern Nepal, which they were constantly exploring since the deadly flood of 26 August in the Himalayas."A team of the Nepal Army and foreign rescuers managed to get out ali…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) One Chinese national was rescued from a tunnel at a hydroelectric power plant construction site on the 5th (local time), ten days after the massive floods swept through the Himalayan mountain region.
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