Rescuers in Nepal find two more people alive after flash flood disaster
Rescue teams in Nepal have successfully recovered two more survivors from debris 10 days after catastrophic flash floods triggered by a glacial collapse. International search efforts remain focused on hydropower project tunnels where hundreds of workers are still missing.
Why it matters
The disaster highlights the extreme vulnerability of infrastructure in mountainous regions to climate-induced geological events.
Rescuers bring a Chinese man out from a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower project on Saturday. Rescuers bring a Chinese man out from a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower project on Saturday. Nepal-Tibet flood disaster Rescuers in Nepal find two more people alive after flood disaster Chinese man at Trishuli hydropower project and Nepali woman in Nuwakot found 10 days into rescue operation
Prefer the Guardian on Google Emergency responders rescued a Chinese man and a Nepali woman in two separate operations on Saturday, as authorities continued to search for thousands of people missing 10 days after massive floods hit Nepal .
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