South Korean rescue team pulls Chinese worker alive from Nepal power plant tunnel after 10 days

A Chinese worker trapped inside a tunnel at a hydropower plant in Nepal has been rescued alive after 10 days.

Nepal's prime minister's office announced Saturday (local time) on social media that a Chinese national had been pulled from a tunnel at the Trishuli hydropower plant that day, according to the Associated Press.

The Nepal Army said a joint rescue team of Nepali soldiers and South Korean disaster relief experts extracted the man from the 225-meter-long tunnel and that his condition was being assessed.

Three workers in total have now been rescued from the Trishuli hydropower plant tunnel. Earlier, on Friday, two Nepali workers were brought out alive.

A survivor was also found the same day in Nuwakot, where the Nepal Army spokesperson said rescuers pulled a woman from her home 10 days after floodwaters swept through the village.

Nepali authorities say about 900 workers are missing across 12 hydropower projects nationwide, with an estimated 500 believed to be trapped inside tunnels.

The floods that struck Aug. 26 have killed at least 1,300 people and left more than 5,000 missing. Nepal's disaster management agency said a glacial collapse is the most likely cause.

Meanwhile, the search continues for nine South Korean nationals who remain missing.