Woman Rescued Alive After Days Under Nepal Flood Debris: What to Know
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Nepal Floods: 60-Year-Old Woman Rescued After 11 Days; Tunnel Survivors Found
In Nepal, rescue operations following devastating floods have led to multiple miraculous rescues. A 60-year-old woman was pulled alive from the fourth floor of a buried building in Betrawati after spending 11 days trapped under mud and debris. The Armed Police Force located her using sniffer dogs, and she was subsequently transported to Kathmandu for medical care. Additionally, rescue workers at the Upper Trishuli 1 hydropower project site rescued a Chinese national from the Audit 4 tunnel, marking three survivors pulled from critical tunnel areas within two days. International tunnelling experts, alongside the Nepalese Army, police, and scouts, have joined the search efforts equipped with specialized machinery. Official records indicate that over 1,300 people have died, while approximately 5,000 individuals remain missing across worst-affected areas including Betrawati, Dhunge, and Bhattar, where structures were submerged under heavy mud flows.
Rescuers in Nepal have rescued a third worker from a tunnel in the north of the country that was trapped by catastrophic floods last week. The Nepalese army said it was a Chinese worker. The death toll from floods and landslides has risen to 1,344, with 4,886 people still missing.
The huge wave of water, ice and debris that broke across the border between Nepal and China has killed 1,375 people and more than 5,600 people in both countries, according to the latest reports. Several hundred of them are tourists, pilgrims or foreign workers.
For the first time in disaster management Nepal relies on its professional mountain climbers. After the flood with over 1000 dead, they help "where normal people don't get there"
Nepal maintained search operations this Saturday eleven days after the flood that devastated the north of the country, encouraged by the new life-saving rescues recorded in the last few hours while hundreds of workers are still missing in hydroelectric power stations razed by water and mud. Interior Minister Sudhan Gurung said [...]
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