{"id":592069,"date":"2026-09-06T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592069\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:14:15","slug":"two-people-saved-in-nepal-after-days-of-being-trapped-by-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592069\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people saved in Nepal after days of being trapped by debris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rescuers in Nepal pulled out a Chinese man and a woman in separate operations, 10 days after devastating floods hit the country, as teams continued searching for thousands of missing people.<\/p>\n

The man was rescued from a hydropower tunnel, according to a social media post by the country\u2019s prime minister\u2019s office, bringing the total to three workers pulled alive from the Trishuli hydropower project. <\/p>\n

Two Nepalese workers were rescued Friday<\/a> (local time).<\/p>\n

Nepal’s army said a joint rescue team of Nepalese military personnel and South Korean disaster experts rescued the man from a 225-metre tunnel and that he was undergoing a health assessment.<\/p>\n

Images showed him being evacuated by helicopter, with an army medic checking on him during the flight.<\/p>\n

A photo released by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV showed two rescuers carrying the man, called Lu Haitao, out of the tunnel.<\/p>\n

CCTV shared audio of Lu talking to an officer, saying how he repeatedly shouted whenever he saw the rescue crews\u2019 lights, but they could not hear him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they rescued me today, when they shone (the light) before my eyes, I couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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A damaged residential building in the wake of the Trishuli River floods. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Lu was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition, according to CCTV.<\/p>\n

Rescue efforts have increasingly focused on 12 hydropower projects across Nepal, where about 900 workers are missing and roughly 500 are believed to be trapped in various tunnels, authorities said. <\/p>\n

Specialised rescue teams from India, China, South Korea and the United States have been searching through debris, damaged structures and tunnels at the projects, hoping to find survivors.<\/p>\n

In flood-hit Nuwakot town, a woman was rescued alive from a house, Nepal’s army spokesperson said. Officials said she was airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment.<\/p>\n

Images released by Nepal\u2019s army showed rescuers finding the woman covered in mud inside the damaged house. They gave her bottled water before pulling her to safety, wrapped in a gray blanket.<\/p>\n

At least 1300 people were killed in the August 26 floods, which were likely caused by a glacier collapse, and more than 5000 remain missing, according to Nepal\u2019s disaster management agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers in Nepal pulled out a Chinese man and a woman in separate operations, 10 days after devastating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2300,3092,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-592069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-asia","tag-floods","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}