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Rescuers in Nepal find two more people alive after flash flood disaster
Confirmed
In Short: Nepal observes a day of mourning for over 1,300 people killed in recent floods, as rescuers continue to search for survivors.
Nepal is holding a national day of mourning to remember more than 1,300 people who died in last month’s catastrophic floods.
Government offices in Nepal and missions abroad are flying the national flag at half-mast on Monday, the 13th day since the floods, the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement.
Rescuers in Nepal have found four people alive in recent days, including a Chinese national who was pulled from a tunnel at a hydropower site on Saturday.
Oil lamps burn to mark the last day of the 13-day Buddhist mourning ritual in Dhunge, Nuwakot district, Nepal, as search efforts continue for missing workers in hydropower tunnels.
What's confirmed
- “There are no government programmes organised as the rescue and search operation is still going on in the flood-hit areas,” Phanindra Paudel of the National Emergency Operation Center (NEOC) told the Reuters news agency.
What's still developing
- President Ram Chandra Paudel, the ceremonial head of state, is touring flood-hit areas on Monday and will survey damage caused by the disaster, his aide said.
- A huge wall of mud and rock, triggered by a glacier breaking off, collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China’s Tibet region on August 26, causing flooding that killed at least 1,380 people and left more than 5,500 missing.
- Nepalis observed a national day of mourning for the victims of the flash flood on Monday, lighting candles to mark the last day of the traditional 13-day Hindu mourning period.
- Nepal's president, Ram Chandra Paudel, toured areas devastated by the floods on Monday, an aide told Reuters.
- Watch: Moment 64-year-old Nepali woman is found alive in mud-buried home Army spokesperson Raja Ram Basnet told Agence France-Presse that rescue efforts were continuing "with the same tempo we had on day one".
- She was discovered alive on the fourth floor of the building by Nepal's Armed Police Force and airlifted to a hospital in Kathmandu for treatment.
- At least 1,287 people are known to have died after a flash flood, believed to have been triggered by a glacial collapse, swept through villages in a Himalayan valley along border between Nepal and Tibet.
- "We are making sure that no one is still stranded." Among the few places where rescuers still see a chance of finding survivors is in tunnels that form part of the region's hydropower stations, with hundreds of workers among the missing.