Rescuers in Nepal Pull 2 People Alive From the Debris 10 Days After Devastating Floods
The men were flown to a military hospital after rescuers heard voices and intensified searches for hundreds still missing.
- On Friday, the Nepal Army rescued two hydropower workers, mechanical foreman Sanjay Sah and mechanical supervisor Kabir Maharjan, from the debris-filled Trishuli-3A Hydropower Project tunnel after nine days trapped underground.
- The pair were among hundreds of workers missing since a tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept the China-Nepal border following a vast glacial and rock collapse on August 26.
- Rescuers stepped up efforts after hearing voices near the tunnel and hailed the survival as a "miracle," though one survivor suffered from mild hypothermia upon extraction.
- Both survivors are in stable condition at a military hospital in Kathmandu, while the flooding disaster's death toll has reached 1,294, with 5,053 people missing.
- Prime Minister Balendra Shah promised "safe and comfortable accommodation" for displaced citizens, while international teams from India, China, and South Korea assist the Nepal Army in ongoing search operations.
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Army, 'survived in the conduct of a hydroelectric power plant' (ANSA)
A Chinese citizen was rescued alive this Saturday from a tunnel in northern Nepal, where he had been trapped since the devastating landsliding that hit the region on August 26, told AFP a spokesman for the Nepal Army. Who are the two workers rescued alive after nine days stuck in a tunnel in Nepal The man was found in the tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 hydroelectric project, one of the structures hit by the avalanche of water, mud and debris cau…
Meanwhile, the devastating torrential flood in Nepal is nine days ago. The fact that a Chinese worker is still being rescued alive from a buried tunnel of a hydroelectric project is a small miracle.
More than nine days after the flood in the Himalayas, forces rescued another man from the tunnel of a hydroelectric power plant.
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Rescuers in Nepal pull a Chinese national alive from a hydropower tunnel 10 days after floods
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