{"id":674201,"date":"2026-09-05T17:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/674201\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:23:16","slug":"nepal-rescuers-pull-man-from-tunnel-and-woman-from-half-submerged-home-10-days-after-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/674201\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal rescuers pull man from tunnel and woman from half-submerged home 10 days after flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RESCUERS IN NEPAL have pulled a Chinese national from a hydropower tunnel and a local woman from her partially submerged home today, 10 days after a flood devastated parts of Nepal and Tibet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A rescue team comprising personnel from the Nepal Army and foreign experts rescued the Chinese man from 225 metres inside the tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Rasuwa district, a military statement said.<\/p>\n<p>A picture of the rescue published on the army\u2019s Facebook page showed the man, identified only as Luhaitao, with his arms around the shoulders of two camouflage-clad rescuers.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared alert, but his hands were covered in thick, wet mud.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788628996_373_.jpeg\"  alt=\"nepal-floods\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            The man was trapped for days (Nepal Army via AP)                    Nepal Army via AP<\/p>\n<p>    Nepal Army via AP\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis health is currently being assessed and further search and rescue operations are continuing,\u201d the army said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was among hundreds of hydropower workers who went missing after a tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept through the China-Nepal border following a vast glacial and rock collapse on 26 August.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities later in the day said members of Nepal\u2019s Armed Police Force pulled alive Chandrika Shrestha (64), from her buried home in Nuwakot district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA police team found her as they were clearing the area. She has been airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment,\u201d police deputy superintendent Iqbal Hawari told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>A video released by Nepal\u2019s Armed Police Force showed only part of her house visible, with the lower floors submerged by thick sludge.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/tunnel-workers-rescued-nepal-7152283-Sep2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two Nepali hydropower workers were rescued<\/a> at the Trishuli 3A tunnel, where searches continued alongside multiple other sites, with at least 12 hydropower projects destroyed by the floods.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were reported to be in stable condition in a Kathmandu hospital.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 1,344 bodies have been recovered in Nepal, according to the national disaster agency, with around 5,000 people missing.<\/p>\n<p>In China, state media said 31 people had been killed and 531 were missing.<\/p>\n<p>That takes the overall death toll to 1,375 people, and more than 5,500 missing.<\/p>\n<p>Two Irish people \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/nepalese-floods-7147971-Sep2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santosh Sahu and his son, Spandan Sahu<\/a> \u2013 are among those reported missing\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Thousands in relief camps<\/p>\n<p>The government initially said it believed more than 100 workers could be alive inside multiple tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from India, China, Australia and South Korea have been aiding Nepali rescuers in their search of survivors inside the blocked tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers have also been relying on drones to deliver medicine, food and other supplies, as well as transporting bodies, in high-altitude areas hard to reach by roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have sent a lot of relief material and right now our team is loading some materials for the hospital in the area,\u201d drone operator Avaya Pokharel told AFP in Nuwakot.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has warned that the \u201cmagnitude of the destruction\u201d makes delivering aid an immense challenge, launching a $50 million (\u20ac43.02 million) appeal to help more than 84,000 people affected by the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>With morgues overflowing, some 1,030 bodies have been buried in mass graves after taking DNA samples for future identification, Nepal Police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Balendra Shah promised to provide \u201csafe and comfortable accommodation\u201d for thousands of people displaced by the disaster and currently living in temporary relief camps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that staying there (in camps) is not easy for you,\u201d he said in a social media post on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He promised to \u201conce again create an environment where you can dream about and build your future\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RESCUERS IN NEPAL have pulled a Chinese national from a hydropower tunnel and a local woman from her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,381,257116,18,13,14,27185,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,8396,5,239245,21767,7,8],"class_list":["post-674201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-china","tag-chinese-national","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-flood","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-nepal","tag-news","tag-rescue-efforts","tag-tibet","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117219597053451569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}