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The situation remains precarious for residents who barely managed to survive the massive floods. With dozens of bridges connecting mountain villages in the canyon areas destroyed, residents are relying on makeshift ziplines to escape their isolated towns. The death toll continues to rise, surpassing 1,200.
Reporter Yu Deok-gi has the details.
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Rushing rivers of mud pouring down from the high Himalayas surged rapidly through the canyon, indiscriminately swallowing up large and small bridges that connected villages.
A total of 45 bridges were washed away or damaged across the Trishuli River area in this flood.
Rescue authorities have even installed five ziplines to rescue residents isolated in various locations.
A small metal cage barely big enough for two adults is hung from a single steel cable over the fiercely flowing muddy water, and soldiers pull the rope manually without any motorized equipment to move it across.
[Surendra Tamang / Flood Survivor]: "It is scary (riding the zipline). But my home is (across the river), and my entire family is over there."
However, with so many bridges and roads cut off, an estimated 3,700 households and 14,000 people remain isolated.
[Sarita / Flood Survivor]: "No food is coming. No cars are coming. The roads are closed and we are all facing great hardship."
Even residents who returned to their home villages after evacuating find it difficult to take a single step as their living spaces are filled with mud.
They search through the wreckage with their bare hands, hoping to salvage even a single remaining belonging from their devastatingly destroyed homes.
[Flood Survivor]: "Since the flood, I haven't been able to go back home. I can only look at my house on the opposite side from the riverbank. I cannot cross over."
On the 8th day since the massive flood, the combined death toll in Nepal and China has exceeded 1,200, and the number of missing persons has increased to 4,700.
The Nepalese government estimates that about 5 percent of Nepal's total population, roughly 1.6 million people, have been directly or indirectly affected by this massive flood.
(Video by Cho Mu-hwan | Source: X @rizwanace)
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