Nepal flood survivors cling to zipline to cross treacherous river
The army said the crossing is the first of five planned along the Trishuli River as rescuers search for more than 4,800 missing people.
- On Wednesday, the Nepal Army installed a roughly 250-metre temporary cable crossing in Bidur, providing a precarious lifeline across the swollen Trishuli River after devastating floods destroyed roads and bridges.
- Catastrophic flooding has killed more than 1,200 people and left nearly 4,800 missing in Nepal and China's Tibet region, sweeping away critical infrastructure and isolating communities.
- Bhishma Bhatta, 40, used the zipline to transport his mother, Tulkumaari, to a hospital after she developed severe breathing difficulties overnight. "We somehow managed to get her on the zipline... and take her to hospital," he said.
- Nepali soldiers and local residents pull flood survivors across the river on the makeshift device daily. Sujan, a chef from Amsterdam, said, "My home was taken by the floods, and my family is in a shelter."
- Five temporary cable links are planned along the flood-hit Trishuli River to restore connectivity, while rescuers search for survivors and helicopters ferry temporary shelters, medicine, and food to affected communities.
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Milan, 3 sets. (askanews) - Above the river Trishuli in full, the victims of the flood cling to an improvised teleferic while Nepali soldiers and local inhabitants pull them to the other side, more than a week after one of the worst disasters that have ever struck the country. The Nepalese army installed a temporary passage with cables of about 250 meters to Bidur, offering a precarious glimmer of hope to cross the river after the devastating fl…
A cage suspended at a rope and pulled by hand to overcome the river Trishuli: in the Nepalese district of Nuwakot the inhabitants built a cable car of luck after the flood swept away the bridges and interrupted the connections. The precarious system allows the residents remained isolated to reach the other side, check their homes and recover what survived to the full. There are no certifications on the safety of the structure, used as an emergen…
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