Rescuers in Nepal pull a Chinese national and a woman alive 10 days after devastating floods
- On Saturday, rescue teams in Nepal pulled a Chinese national, Luhaitao, alive from a hydropower tunnel 10 days after catastrophic floods devastated the Nepal-China border region.
- The August 26 floods, likely caused by a glacier collapse, killed 1,375 people across the Nepal-China border and left more than 5,000 missing, with roughly 500 workers believed trapped in tunnels across 12 hydropower projects.
- A joint team of Nepali Army personnel and South Korean disaster experts extracted Luhaitao from approximately 225 meters inside the tunnel, marking the third worker pulled alive from the Trishuli hydropower project.
- Separately, rescuers in Nuwakot pulled a woman alive from a damaged house on Saturday, according to the Nepali Army, while Luhaitao is undergoing health assessment after helicopter evacuation.
- The United Nations and humanitarian partners launched a $49.6 million emergency appeal yesterday to provide life-saving assistance to people in Nepal affected by the disaster.
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Chinese national rescued from Nepal tunnel 10 days after flash flood
KATHMANDU, Sept 5 - A Chinese national was pulled alive from a tunnel in Nepal on Saturday, authorities said, 10 days after a wall of ice, rock and mud tore through a Himalayan valley, killing more than 1,300 people and leaving over 5,600 missing. Read more at straitstimes.com.
On 26 August, the devastating flood in the Himalayas caused at least 1,325 deaths and 5,083 missing in Nepal, according to a final assessment. Ten days after the disaster, a person was taken out of a tunnel from which she was held prisoner. This is the third since the tragedy. - Nepal: ten days after the deadly flood, a third escaped alive from a tunnel (International).
Nepalese rescuers pulled a Chinese national alive from a hydroelectric tunnel on Saturday, the country's prime minister's office said.
Nepalese rescuers on Saturday managed to extract a third person, a Chinese national, from a tunnel in the north of the country where he had been trapped since the deadly mudslide of August 26. The Nepalese Prime Minister's office also announced on Saturday the rescue of a 64-year-old woman, Chandrika Shrestha, who was found alive in a house in the disaster-stricken town of Betrawati.
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