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Two people found alive 10 days after Nepal flash flood

From Aftenposten · () Norwegian

Translated from Norwegian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Newswire Official statement Ongoing story
  • A Chinese citizen was rescued alive from a tunnel at a hydropower plant, while a Nepali woman was found alive in a house in Nuwakot.
  • More than 5,000 people remain missing, most of them in Nepal, and more than 1,300 people have died.
  • The woman was flown to a hospital in Kathmandu, while three workers have now been rescued from the tunnel.

Ten days after a devastating flash flood struck Nepal and Tibet, rescuers found two people alive on Saturday: a Chinese man trapped in a hydropower tunnel and a Nepali woman inside a house in Nuwakot.

Nepal's prime minister's office said the Chinese citizen had been rescued from the tunnel. That brought the number of workers saved from the site to three, after two Nepali workers were rescued on Friday.

Soon afterward, authorities reported that a woman had been found alive in a house in Nuwakot. She was flown to a hospital in Kathmandu.

The rescues came as hopes of finding more survivors continued to fade. More than 5,000 people remain missing, most of them in Nepal, while more than 1,300 people have been confirmed dead.

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