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Rescues of Flood Survivors Boost Hope as Nepal Search Persists
A massive glacial collapse triggered catastrophic flooding in the Nepal‑China border region, leaving countless people dead or missing. Search teams continue to comb devastated villages and hydropower tunnels despite difficult terrain and poor communications. Recent rescues include a Chinese worker extracted from deep inside a hydropower tunnel and a 64‑year‑old Nepali woman pulled from a mud‑filled home. The operations involve Nepali security forces and international rescue specialists, and survivors are being taken to medical facilities for treatment.
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Why it matters
The ongoing rescue effort shows that lives can still be saved amid one of the region's deadliest flood disasters.
How this story developed
- Aug 28 Nepalese army pulls survivors from flooded hydropower tunnel in Rasuwa
- Sep 3 The storm made landfall on Fujian’s coast after earlier strikes on Zhejiang, leading to the suspension of dozens of ferry services and the closure of schools in Fuzhou and Quanzhou. Tourist sites such as theme parks in Fuzhou were also temporarily closed. The provincial emergency management authority warned of heavy rain, flash floods and landslides, while nearly a quarter-million residents in high-risk zones had been evacuated the previous week.
- Sep 3 Death toll rose above 1,270 and bodies recovered reached 1,252.
- Sep 3 Rescuers freed mechanical foreman Sanjay Shah and supervisor Kabir Maharjan from the Upper Trishuli 3A tunnel nine days after catastrophic floods swept the Nepal-China border region.
- Sep 4 A third worker’s body was recovered and officials said about 39 people remain trapped.
- Sep 5 A Chinese worker was rescued from the Upper Trishuli-3A tunnel and is undergoing medical evaluation.
- Sep 5 A Canadian citizen missing after the floods was located safe.
- Sep 5 A 64‑year‑old Nepali woman was rescued from a mud‑filled home in Nuwakot.
- Sep 5 After more than a week of searching, a 64-year-old woman was rescued from a mud-filled house and a Chinese worker was saved from a deep tunnel, rekindling optimism amid Nepal's deadliest floods in a decade.
- Sep 5 Authorities suspended 24 passenger ferry routes and closed Fuzhou theme parks.
- Sep 6 An unidentified body was recovered near the Wi dam.
- Sep 6 Flash floods ripped a three‑storey building in Xianyou County and drones delivered supplies to a flooded school in Wenzhou.
- Sep 6 Officials are pursuing higher‑ground reconstruction of the school with Indian aid.
- Sep 7 Chinese worker Lu Haitao was rescued from a 225‑metre hydropower tunnel and air‑lifted to a hospital.
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