Another Chinese Worker Rescued in Nepal After Floods

Rescuers in Nepal pulled a Chinese worker from a tunnel, the third person rescued from the underground complex after last week’s catastrophic floods. Nepalese army spokesperson Raja Ram Basnet told AFP, “The Chinese citizen has just been pulled out of the tunnel.” He gave no details about the worker’s condition.

Two Nepalese workers were rescued from the same hydropower complex on Friday after spending 10 days underground. They were the first survivors found in the buried network of tunnels after the disaster, but authorities expected more workers to remain trapped.

One of the two Nepalese workers was in critical condition in intensive care at a military hospital in Kathmandu. He suffered serious health problems from hypothermia and severe exhaustion. The other worker was stable and said he had shouted to communicate with several people trapped nearby.

The floods and landslides had killed 1,344 people, while 4,886 remained missing, according to foreign news agencies cited in the report. Only 74 of the recovered bodies had been identified, including 85 minors among the dead, and Nepalese authorities said at least 606 foreign nationals were among those missing.

Humanitarian organizations continued to respond. Slovenian Caritas had raised more than 10,000 euros and was collecting further donations. Slovenia’s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs allocated 100,000 euros for emergency aid. Through Caritas Nepal, the money was intended initially to help 4,000 of the hardest-hit households with food, emergency shelter supplies, hygiene items, solar lamps and medicines for health posts.

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The Chinese citizen has just been pulled out of the tunnel.