Chinese National Rescued from Nepal Floods... Found at Power Plant Where Missing Koreans Worked

Found Ten Days After Major Flooding in Nepal

On the 5th (local time), ten days after the major flooding in Nepal, a Chinese national was rescued from a hydropower plant tunnel. The location where the person was found has been identified as the power plant where nine missing Korean nationals were working.

Raja Ram Basnet, spokesperson for the Nepal Army, announced, "We have just rescued one Chinese person from the tunnel at the Upper Trishuli (UT)-1 hydropower plant construction site in the Rasuwa area, Bagmati Province, in north-central Nepal."

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The joint rescue team, consisting of military personnel and Korean disaster experts, found the man alive inside the 225-meter-long tunnel. According to the army, military medical personnel are currently assessing his health condition.

The Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) also announced that it had rescued a Chinese survivor on the same day from a tunnel near the weir dam, which is the upper dam of the same power plant. This latest rescue brings the number of survivors rescued by KDRT to nine since its establishment in 2007. KDRT had previously rescued eight people during the earthquake in Türkiye in 2023.

The previous day, Nepali rescuers saved two Nepali staff members, Sanjay Sah (30) and Kabir Maharjan (45), from the tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower plant. Both survivors were transported to a military hospital, where they remain in intensive care. However, their pulse, breathing, and body temperature are reported to be stable.

On the same day, in the Nuwakot area of Bagmati Province, the Nepal Army reported the rescue of Chandika Shrestha (60, female) from the second floor of a four-story house buried in flood debris, and she is currently being airlifted to the capital, Kathmandu.

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