2 more rescued from debris in Nepal 10 days after devastating floods
The rescue brings the total to three workers saved from a hydropower tunnel, after two other workers were freed a day before.
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The rescue brings the total to three workers saved from a hydropower tunnel, after two other workers were freed a day before.
Rescuers in Nepal pulled two workers alive from a hydropower tunnel as emergency teams continued efforts to reach others believed to be trapped and still alive inside, officials said.
Nepali officials tell CBS News they have contacted a U.S. national among the more than 4,000 people still missing in the wake of the deadly flash floods.
As the death toll from the Nepal floods passes 1000, Americans with loved ones among the nearly 4,000 people missing are still hoping for miracles.
More than 3,000 people are still missing after catastrophic flash floods hit following a glacial collapse high in the Himalayan region.
Poor weather and challenging terrain have hampered aerial rescue operations in Nepal and Tibet.
Rescuers pulled out survivors and helicopters ferried people to safety as Nepal and China raced to respond after catastrophic flash floods killed hundreds of people.
More than 1,000 people, including many Americans, are still missing along the Nepal-China border after deadly floods and mudflows likely triggered by a glacial collapse.
The flash floods decimated villages, slamming into houses, roads, bridges and power plants.
A U.S. District Court judge issued a summary judgment on Wednesday, finding that the effort to revoke the legal status of tens of thousands of Hondurans, Nepalis and Nicaraguans was unlawful
Protests in Nepal over a since-lifted ban on major social media platforms have left almost 20 people dead and now toppled the country's leader.
A strong earthquake killed more than 100 people in Tibet and left many others trapped in the autonomous region of western China, state media say.
Most of those killed were crushed by debris when their houses — usually made by stacking rocks and logs — crumbled under the force of the tremblor midnight Friday, local media reported.
A regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara, authorities said.
Doctors and colleagues at the University of Miami Hospital were still in a state of shock Monday after learning the chief of vascular surgery, Dr. Jagajan Karmaharya, was killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu, Nepal.
A vascular surgeon who practiced at University of Miami Hospital was killed in a plane crash along with 18 other people in a forested area near Kathmandu, Nepal.
