A Nepali woman and a Chinese national were rescued alive from two separate flood-hit areas on Saturday, 11 days after deadly floods struck regions along Nepal’s Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river corridors, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.
Shrestha, a resident of Bidur Municipality-10 in Nuwakot, was rescued by a team of the Armed Police Force, Nepal, led by Inspector Suman Bik. The Nepali Army, in coordination with a disaster expert team from South Korea, rescued the Chinese national from Audit 4 of the project’s tunnel, the PMO said in a social media post. Nepal (IPPAN), a representative body of private-sector power developers in Nepal, the under-construction Upper Trishuli 1 Hydropower Project has reported the highest number of people out of contact among 11 flood-affected hydropower projects in the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts, according to the Independent Power Producers’ Association. As many as 936 people employed at 11 hydropower projects remain out of contact, including 551 from the Upper Trishuli 1 project, IPPAN said on Friday evening.
She was found unconscious, according to the PMO. She will be taken to Kathmandu for further medical care if required, the PMO said. Following her rescue, Shrestha was airlifted by helicopter to the Nepali Army’s Maithili Barracks in Trishuli, where she received initial treatment.
