Chinese national rescued from tunnel in Nepal 10 days after catastrophic flooding

Chinese national rescued from tunnel in Nepal 10 days after catastrophic flooding.

Key points

• So far, 1, 344 bodies have been recovered in Nepal, according to the national disaster agency, with around 5, 000 individuals missing.
• That takes the overall death toll to 1, 375 individuals, and more than 5, 500 missing.
• With morgues overflowing, some 1, 030 bodies had been buried in mass graves after taking DNA samples for future identification, Nepal Police remarked on Saturday.
• Experts from India, China, Australia and South Korea have been aiding Nepali rescuers in their search of survivors inside blocked tunnels.
• In China, state media remarked 31 residents had been killed and 531 were missing.

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As emergency response teams dug with new vigour in the search for missing individuals 10 days after catastrophic flooding, rescuers in Nepal pulled a Chinese national alive on Saturday from a tunnel buried by debris.

Notably, a joint rescue team comprising personnel from the Nepal Army and foreign experts rescued the man from 225 metres inside the tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Rasuwa district, a military statement remarked.

Notably, a picture of the rescue published on the army's Facebook page demonstrates the man, identified only as Luhaitao, with his arms around the shoulders of two camouflage-clad rescuers.

He looked alert but his hands were covered in thick, slimy mud.

"His health is currently being assessed and further search and rescue operations are continuing, " the army remarked.

Meanwhile, the survivor was among hundreds of hydropower workers who went missing since a tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept through the China-Nepal border after a vast glacial and rock collapse on August 26.

Two Nepali hydropower workers were rescued on Friday at the Trishuli 3A tunnel, where searches continued alongside multiple other sites, with at least 12 hydropower projects destroyed by the floods.

Thousands in relief camps Army spokesman Raja Ram Basnet informed AFP that "work is underway at the tunnels" to locate any survivors.

In practice, the administration initially stated it believed more than 100 workers could be alive inside multiple tunnels.

Rescuers called it a "miracle" after the two Nepali men, caked in mud, were pulled out alive on Friday, nine days after being trapped by the flood.

They were taken to hospital and are remarked to be in a stable condition.

Prime Minister Balendra Shah promised to provide "safe and comfortable accommodation" for thousands of individuals displaced by the disaster and at present living in temporary relief camps.

"We know that staying there is not easy for you, " he remarked in a Friday post on social media.

But he promised to "once again create an environment where you can dream about and build your future".

For now, chinese national rescued from tunnel in Nepal 10 days after catastrophic flooding remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.