The agency played an important role in responding to earlier disasters like the 2015 earthquake. But the U.S. and other countries have pulled back, Nepali officials and humanitarian groups say.
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When flash floods hit the China-Nepal border late last month, surveillance footage captured the dramatic moment a five-story building was engulfed by a wall of water. CNN’s Simone McCarthy was among the first group of foreign media to visit the site and see what it’s like now. #cnn #news #nepal
Authorities are burying unidentified victims after the catastrophic Nepal-China floods. CNN’s Hanako Montgomery talks about what she witnessed from reporting on the ground.
A rescue from a mostly buried house gave new hope to a town devastated by floods in Nepal. Earlier Saturday, another survivor had been pulled from a tunnel.
A Chinese national was rescued from a hydropower tunnel in Rasuwa district, while a 64-year-old Nepali woman was found alive beneath the mud and debris of her home in Nuwakot district.
Rescuers in Nepal have pulled a Chinese national alive from a hydropower tunnel 10 days after floods caused devastation on the border, according to the Nepali army.
Two workers were rescued from inside a hydropower tunnel on Friday after devastating flooding left them trapped. Footage released by the Nepali Army shows rescuers working amid mud and debris to free the men before carrying them from the site and providing medical treatment. #nepal #flooding #rescue
Two people have been pulled alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal, more than a week after catastrophic floods at its border with China. The plant was unrecognizable from the disaster – rescuers had to use satellite pictures to find it below the mud. Sanjay Sah, 30, who is in stable condition, had to ask rescuers what date it was. He said he was trapped after helping others escape and kept his spirits up chanting Hindu mantras. Kabir Maharjan, 45 is critically ill. Both are being treated in hospital. Emergency workers told CNN at the site that they remain hopeful of finding more people alive. But the situation remains murky and operations are cumbersome, with rescuers digging by hand. 0:00 Cheers as Sanjay Sah, 30, is pulled from tunnel…
Thousands are missing, and some families have lost hope of recovering their bodies. To carry out his sacred duty, a son lights the funeral pyre for a straw effigy of his father.