5.9.2026
A 60-year-old woman was rescued alive after spending 10 days trapped inside a four-storey house buried under debris in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, a local media report said on Saturday.
Chandika Shrestha was found unconscious on the upper floor of the house in Betrawati, Bidur Municipality-10, and pulled out by a nine-member Armed Police Force team, The Kathmandu Post reported.
Following the rescue, Shrestha was flown by helicopter to the Nepali Army’s Maithili Barracks in Trishuli for initial treatment.
Also a Chinese national was rescued alive from a flood-hit hydropower tunnel in Nepal’s Rasuwa district on Saturday.
The man, identified as Luhaitao, was trapped inside Audit Tunnel 4 of the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project. A joint team of the Nepali Army and foreign rescuers located him around 225 metres inside the tunnel and brought him out alive at around 1.30 pm.
“A joint rescue team comprising the Nepali Army and foreign rescuers has rescued a Chinese national, Luhaitao, alive from inside a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project,” the Nepali Army said following the rescue on Saturday.
The latest rescue brings the number of workers pulled alive from the affected Trishuli hydropower projects to three. Two Nepali workers, mechanical supervisor Kabir Maharjan, 45, and foreman Sanjay Sah, 30, were rescued from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower plant on Friday.
The Nepal Army-led security command has been conducting search and rescue operations with specialised equipment.
The disaster began on August 26 when an ice-rock avalanche near the Nepal-Tibet border triggered flash floods that devastated towns and villages across northern and central Nepal. More than 1,300 people have died, while around 4,900 remain missing.
The Bhotekoshi River, which flows south from the Himalayan border region, carried the floodwaters downstream, sweeping away homes, vehicles, roads and bridges and damaging hydropower projects. Agency reports