Two More Survivors Found Alive in Nepal 10 Days After Himalayan Flash Floods

Rescue workers in Nepal found two more survivors on Saturday, 10 days after flash floods tore through Himalayan valleys and left thousands of people dead or missing in Nepal and Tibet.

A police spokesman said a woman in her 60s was rescued alive from a buried house in Betrawati, in Bagmati province along the border with Tibet. She was airlifted to Kathmandu for medical treatment. Police gave no further details on her condition.

The Nepalese army separately confirmed that a Chinese national was recovered from a tunnel at the damaged Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower plant in Rasuwa district. Military personnel advanced about 225 meters into the tunnel to reach him, according to the army. The man was undergoing medical examinations, and the search for others missing in that tunnel system was continuing, The Kathmandu Post reported.

Saturday’s rescue came a day after two other people were pulled alive from a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli 3A hydropower plant. Hundreds of people are still believed to be trapped in the vast tunnel networks linked to Nepal’s hydropower infrastructure, which emerged as one of the deadliest parts of the disaster.

The confirmed death toll across Nepal and Tibet has now reached more than 1,300. Nepal’s police figure stands at 1,344 dead, including 85 children. Nearly 4,900 people remain listed as missing in Nepal, among them 618 foreigners. In Tibet, authorities have confirmed 31 deaths, with another 531 people unaccounted for.

The scale of the losses has raised new questions about the safety of infrastructure built in Nepal’s steep mountain valleys, where fast-moving floodwater turned tunnels and settlements into deadly traps. For now, rescue teams are still pushing through unstable debris and flooding in the hope of finding more survivors.