Rescue workers in Nepal pulled three people alive from the wreckage of hydropower projects and a buried home on Saturday, 10 days after a devastating flash flood and landslide swept through a Himalayan valley, killing more than 1,300 people in Nepal and Tibet.
A woman in her 60s was rescued from a buried house in Betrawati, in Nepal’s Bagmati province near the border with Tibet, police said. She was flown to Kathmandu for medical treatment. Authorities did not immediately provide details about her condition.
Separately, the Nepali army said a Chinese national was rescued from a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Rasuwa district, one of several hydropower facilities badly damaged by the disaster.
Rescuers advanced about 225 meters (246 yards) into the tunnel before reaching the man, identified by authorities only as Luhaitao. He was taken by helicopter to an army hospital for medical evaluation.
Footage released by the Nepali army showed Luhaitao receiving emergency treatment inside the helicopter. He appeared exhausted and disoriented, with dried mud and dust covering his skin and clothing, while a medic checked his vital signs with a stethoscope.
