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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Nearly 8,000 members of the security forces participate in operations that attempt to locate more than 5,000 people
The floods in Nepal have claimed over 1,300 lives so far. Ten days after the disaster, rescue operations are still underway to save those trapped in tunnels. The Nepali Army has rescued Chinese national Lu Haitao alive from a tunnel. Lu Haitao's condition is currently stable, although he has shown signs of hypothermia.
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KATHMANDU (VINnews) — In a dramatic rescue that has offered a rare ray of hope amid Nepal’s catastrophic floods, rescuers pulled a Chinese worker alive from a tunnel 225 meters underground, 10 full days after he became trapped by the massive flood that devastated the Himalayan border region. Nepalese army personnel rescued Lu Haitao, a Chinese […]
The Nepalese authorities have raised this Saturday to more than 1300 the number of deaths in the devastating floods of 26 August, which have left some 5,000 people still missing.
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