One Chinese person rescued from hydroelectric power plant tunnel 10 days after Himalayan floods
Quick Look
- A Chinese man was rescued from a hydroelectric power plant tunnel 10 days after the Himalayan floods.
- This location is where the nine missing Koreans worked, and expectations are growing for future rescue operations.
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Why It Matters
Due to massive flooding in the Himalayan mountainous region, people went missing at a hydroelectric power plant construction site. Survivors were found in a tunnel at the power plant where nine missing Koreans worked.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) A Chinese person was rescued from a tunnel at a hydroelectric power plant construction site on the 5th (local time), 10 days after a major flood swept through the Himalayan mountainous region.
News of the rescue was reported for the second day in a row, following the loss of two Nepalese power plant employees the previous day.
In particular, the location where the Chinese people were rescued on this day was confirmed to be the power plant where the nine missing Koreans worked, drawing even more attention to future rescue operations.
A joint rescue team consisting of the Nepalese military and South Korean disaster experts found a man named Lu Haitao alive in a 225-meter-long tunnel, and military medical staff were checking his health, the military said.
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Open Questions
- Are the 9 missing Koreans still alive?
- Possibility of finding additional survivors
