Daijiworld Media Network - Kathmandu

Kathmandu, Sep 5: Rescuers in Nepal have pulled a man and a woman alive from flood-hit areas, 10 days after devastating floods struck the country, officials said on Saturday.

The man, a Chinese national, was rescued from a hydropower tunnel, according to the Nepal Prime Minister’s Office. His rescue brought to three the number of workers pulled alive from the Trishuli hydropower project.

Two Nepali workers were rescued from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower plant on Friday. The Nepal Army said a joint team comprising Nepali military personnel and South Korean disaster experts rescued the Chinese worker from a 225-metre tunnel.

The man was undergoing a medical assessment and was later evacuated by helicopter. Images released by the Nepal Army showed a medic attending to him during the flight, while Chinese state broadcaster CCTV released photographs of two rescuers carrying him out of the tunnel.

Authorities said around 900 workers remain missing from 12 hydropower projects across Nepal, with about 500 believed to be trapped inside various tunnels.

In flood-hit Nuwakot, a woman was also rescued alive from a house on Saturday, according to a Nepal Army spokesperson. She was being airlifted to Kathmandu for medical treatment.

Images showed rescuers pulling the woman from the house after she was found alive and wrapping her in a gray blanket before evacuation.

At least 1,300 people were killed in the floods that struck Nepal on August 26, according to the country's disaster management agency. The disaster was likely triggered by a glacier collapse, while more than 5,000 people remain missing.

The latest rescues have raised hopes of finding more survivors as rescue teams continue searching tunnels, homes and other areas devastated by the floods.