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Chinese national rescued alive after 10 days trapped in hydropower tunnel

From Kathmandu Post · () English

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  • A joint Nepali and foreign rescue team found Chinese national Luhaitao about 225 meters inside the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower tunnel after 10 days and brought him out alive.
  • Luhaitao is undergoing a medical check-up, while search and rescue operations continue at the project.
  • Separately, Nepal’s Armed Police Force rescued 60-year-old Chandika Shrestha from a debris-buried house in Nuwakot.

A Chinese national trapped inside a hydropower tunnel for 10 days was brought out alive after rescuers found him about 225 meters inside the passage.

Nepali Army spokesman Rajaram Basnet said a joint team involving the Nepali Army and foreign rescuers located Luhaitao at the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower project. He was taken out alive and is undergoing a medical check-up.

The search and rescue operation at the project is continuing. Separately, the Armed Police Force rescued 60-year-old Chandika Shrestha from the upper floor of a four-storey house buried under debris in Betravati, Nuwakot.

The nine-member team, led by Armed Police Inspector Suman Kumar BK, carried out that rescue in Bidur Municipality-10, police said.

A Chinese national was rescued alive from the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower project’s tunnel on the 10th day after being trapped there.

· Rajaram BasnetNepali Army spokesman describing the rescue of the Chinese national.
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