A child was stuck on a roof during the flash floods and waved his t-shirt to get the attention of a rescue aircraft.
Around 10,000 Nepali troops have been deployed for tunnel rescue operations, alongside specialists from China and India, according to Dharam Raj Uprety, chief of Nepal’s national disaster management authority. Nepal’s disaster authorities said 781 people had died and 2,502 remained missing. More than 90,000 people are believed to have been affected by the disaster.
A video of the dramatic rescue showed the child standing on the rooftop and repeatedly waving his T-shirt as a Nepal Army helicopter approached the area. The rescue came as Nepal continued a massive operation following devastating flash floods and landslides that have killed hundreds of people and left thousands missing. Rescue efforts have increasingly focused on people believed to be trapped inside tunnels at hydropower projects damaged by the floods. Rescue operations remain underway as authorities work to locate missing people and evacuate those stranded in flood-hit areas.