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Saturday, September 5, 2026
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Saturday, September 5, 2026
Chinese national rescued alive from rubble nine days after Nepal flood
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People salvage their belongings from a building damaged by flash flooding in Nuwakot district of Nepal, September 1, 2026. (AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A Chinese national is pulled alive from a tunnel buried by debris in Nepal after catastrophic flooding more than nine days ago, an army spokesman tells AFP.
“A Chinese national has been rescued just now from a tunnel in the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project,” Nepal Army spokesman Raja Ram Basnet says.
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