A Chinese citizen trapped in the tunnel of a hydroelectric plant and a 64-year-old woman buried by mud in a house were rescued alive this Saturday in Nepal, on the eleventh day after the devastating floods, two findings that keep hopes open of finding more survivors.
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Chandrika Shrestha, 64 years old, was found in a house in the Betrawati market, in Nuwakot, after teams received information that a voice was heard from inside the house, according to local media.
In the images released by the authorities, Shrestha appears conscious, sitting on a thick layer of mud inside a small space, with barely any distance between the accumulated sediments and the ceiling, while several rescuers reach her through an opening in the house.
The woman was rescued by a team from the Armed Police of Nepal led by Inspector Suman BK and taken to receive first aid before being evacuated to Kathmandu, the Prime Minister’s office reported.
The authorities have not yet explained how she managed to survive so many days trapped in the house or if she had access to water or food.
Hours earlier, a Chinese citizen was extracted alive from the Audit-4 tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 hydroelectric plant, in Rasuwa, in a joint operation by the Nepal Army and a South Korean team of disaster specialists.
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After his release, the man was taken to the Maithil military barracks in Trishuli to receive emergency medical care.
Upper Trishuli-1, a 216-megawatt hydroelectric plant still under construction, is one of the places where the search for missing persons is concentrated. Six unidentified bodies were recovered on Friday in the project area and hundreds of workers remain unlocated.
The two findings this Saturday add to the rescue on Friday of two other workers who remained trapped for ten days in a gallery of the nearby Trishuli 3A hydroelectric plant. One of them remains in critical condition due to severe hypothermia and exhaustion, while his companion is stable.
The four rescues in just 24 hours have renewed the hopes of the teams that continue searching for survivors among the mud, debris, and tunnels of the hydroelectric projects devastated by the flood.
About 8,000 members of the security forces participate in operations trying to locate more than five thousand people and have found more than 1,300 lifeless bodies.
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