Rescuers pull Chinese worker, Nepali woman from flood wreckage alive

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lista 1 de 2 Neplândia resgata dois trabalhadores do túnel de hidrelétrica nove dias após inundações.

Lu Haitao foi libertado no sábado a 225 metros dentro de um túnel inundado em uma usina hidrelétrica no distrito de Rasuwa, nas montanhas ao norte da capital, Kathmandu.

Separately, 64-year-old Chandika Kumari Shrestha was dug out of her collapsed home in the neighbouring district of Nuwakot.

Both had been trapped since a glacier collapsed in the Himalayas on August 26, unleashing a torrent of water, rock and ice that swept through the valley.

Coming within hours of each other, the rescues are the third and fourth in days, and have renewed hope that more of those still unaccounted for in the region’s flooded tunnels could be found alive.

Lu was brought out by a joint team of Nepali soldiers and South Korean disaster specialists, and appeared stable though mildly hypothermic as he was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Kathmandu.

Speaking afterwards to Chinese state television, he described calling out to rescue crews whenever he glimpsed their torchlight in the tunnel, only to go unheard each time, until a beam finally swept over him.

Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng, reporting from Rasuwa district, said rain on Saturday had slowed the search there, though rescue teams were continuing to push ahead.

Shrestha, encontrada coberta de lama dentro de sua casa inundada, recebeu água dos socorristas antes de ser transportada de helicóptero para Kathmandu para tratamento, disseram autoridades.

Her rescue followed that of two Nepali tunnel workers pulled alive a day earlier from a nearby hydropower site, the first survivors recovered from any of the region’s damaged plants.

More than 1,300 dead, 5,000 still missing.

O desastre já causou a morte de pelo menos 1. 331 pessoas no Nepal e deixou cerca de 5. 000 desaparecidos, incluindo 589 estrangeiros, segundo a autoridade nacional de desastres do país.

Enquanto isso, autoridades no Tibete, região autônoma da China do outro lado da fronteira, registraram 31 mortes e 531 pessoas desaparecidas.

About 900 workers remain unaccounted for at hydropower construction sites alone, with roughly 500 of them believed to still be trapped inside tunnels across a dozen projects wrecked by the floodwaters.

The glacier collapse that triggered the disaster sent debris crashing into towns and villages built along river valleys that Nepal has relied on for hydroelectric power, destroying roads, homes and schools in an area popular with foreign trekkers and pilgrims.

Search teams from India, China, South Korea and the United States have since joined the operation, along with a 15-member Australian drone unit sent this week, after Nepal asked for outside help in a rescue effort that had relied mainly on its own forces.

Um dos sobreviventes libertado do túnel Trishuli 3A nesta semana contou aos socorristas que outros trabalhadores ainda estavam vivos mais adentro, disse o exército nepalês, e os oficiais afirmam que as buscas adicionais agora estão focadas nesse local.

Nepal’s information and communications minister, Bikram Timilsina, said authorities remained hopeful that more people would be found alive. “We are waiting for the rescue of more and more people,” he said.

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• S no Tibete, região autônoma da China do outro lado da fronteira, registraram 31 mortes e 531 pessoas desaparecidas