[Anchor]
Our 8 o'clock news begins with reports from Nepal, where miraculous rescues continue. Working alongside the Nepalese army, our relief team rescued a Chinese survivor from a tunnel at the Nepalese power plant where nine missing South Koreans had been working. A Nepalese woman in her 60s was also rescued from a mud-buried home after ten days of isolation.
For our first story, reporter Kim Young-a.
[Reporter]
A man walks out of a tunnel, supported by soldiers.
Although emaciated, no major external injuries are immediately visible.
The man is Lu Haitao, a Chinese national who was rescued from a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 hydroelectric power plant construction site built by a South Korean company.
The South Korean rescue team, searching for missing South Koreans near the weir dam alongside the Nepalese army, discovered him while searching a 225-meter-long tunnel.
Following the rescue of two survivors from the Trishuli-3A tunnel yesterday (the 4th), marking the ninth day since the catastrophe, he is the third survivor to be pulled from a tunnel.
Although Lu Haitao was transferred to an intensive care unit, his pulse, respiration, and body temperature are reportedly stable.
The Nepalese military has been concentrating all efforts on search operations, believing that hundreds more people remain isolated inside tunnels across various locations.
Miraculous rescue reports have thus emerged for two consecutive days from two different tunnels.
[Jabindra Bahadur Lesmi / Nepalese Army Public Relations Colonel: Our military units are deployed in all seven tunnels in this area. We have also deployed ground forces to 19 locations in the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts.]
A gap in a residential building filled with mud.
Rescuers locate a person in a space barely large enough for a human to fit.
After having the exhausted woman drink some water first, the rescuers safely extract her outside the building.
With survivors being found—such as this woman in her 60s rescued in the mudslide-hit Nuwakot district—hope is reviving at the search site.
(Video Editing: Kim Jun-hee)
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