Chinese National Rescued Alive From Nepal Tunnel After 10 Days
Rescue operations in Nepal have successfully recovered four survivors, including a Chinese national, from flood-damaged hydropower tunnels. Authorities report that hundreds of workers remain missing across various project sites following severe flooding.
Why it matters
The disaster highlights the vulnerability of infrastructure projects in the Himalayas to extreme weather events and the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
Rescue teams in Nepal pulled two more survivors alive from flood-hit areas on Saturday, including a Chinese worker trapped inside a hydropower tunnel and a woman found in a damaged house in Nuwakot town, taking the total number of recent rescues to four.The latest rescue involved a Chinese national who was pulled alive from a tunnel linked to a hydropower project. The operation marked the third successful rescue at the Trishuli hydropower site after two Nepali workers were brought out alive from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower plant on Friday.Nepal's Army said the operation was carried out jointly by Nepalese military personnel and disaster response specialists from South Korea.
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