Nepal floods: Woman rescued after 10 days of being trapped in house buried under mud and debris

Nuwakot (Nepal): A 60-year-old woman was pulled out alive from the top floor of a four-storey house, where she was trapped for 10 days, buried under mud and debris after the devastating flash floods, in Bidur town in Nepal's Nuwakot district, officials said.

In a video shared by Nepal Police on social media, rescuers can be seen digging through mud and sludge, before they pull out the woman, identified as Chandika Shrestha, through a window on the top floor of her house.

The woman, who was found unconscious, could be seen in the video slowly gaining consciousness, as rescuers covered her with a blanket and a jacket.


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Following her rescue by a nine-member Armed Police Force (APF) team, Shrestha was flown by helicopter to the Nepali Army's Maithili Barracks in Trishuli for initial treatment.

She is being flown to Kathmandu for medical treatment, said APF deputy spokesperson Shailendra Thapa.

Flash floods, triggered by an ice-rock avalanche near the Nepal-Tibet border on August 26, devastated towns and villages in northern and central Nepal, leaving more than 1,300 dead, while around 5,000 remain missing.

The Bhotekoshi River, which flows south from the Himalayan border region, carried the floodwaters downstream, sweeping away homes, vehicles, roads and bridges and damaging hydropower projects, as it spread across several districts.

More than 13,000 people have been rescued so far.