Rescuers in Nepal pulled a Chinese national alive on Saturday from a tunnel buried by debris, as emergency response teams dug with new vigour in the search for missing people 10 days after catastrophic flooding.
A joint rescue team comprising personnel from the Nepal Army and foreign experts rescued the man from 225 metres (738 feet) inside the tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Rasuwa district, a military statement said.
"His health is currently being assessed and further search and rescue operations are continuing," the army said.
The latest rescue brings to three the number of workers pulled alive from the Trishuli hydropower project.
Two Nepali workers were rescued from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower plant on Friday.
About 900 workers remain missing from 12 hydropower projects across Nepal, with roughly 500 believed to be trapped in tunnels, according to authorities.
About 850 of those missing are foreigners, according to official figures from Nepal and China.
The disaster struck on August 26 when a glacier on Nepal’s Mount Langtang Lirung fractured at an altitude of about 5,200 metres (17,060 feet), killing at least 1,300 people.
The fracture triggered an ice-and-rock avalanche that developed into a massive debris flow and swept through valleys along the border.
Floodwaters and mudslides devastated Nepal’s Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading and Kavre districts, as well as the Kathmandu Valley.
