About 100 Bodies Recovered in a Day Amid Desperate Search Efforts

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The scale of casualties is rapidly growing. With about 100 bodies recovered in Nepal alone, the death toll in China and Nepal has risen to 472, with more than 1,500 people still missing.

Reporter Kim Young-a has the details.

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Survivors struggling to wade through a sea of mud are pulled from the front and pushed from behind.

Nearby, a helicopter hovers, lowering a basket to evacuate survivors.

The Nepalese Army announced that it deployed two helicopters to the isolated Trishuli Hydropower Plant site, rescuing some 350 workers and nearby residents who had been trapped in a tunnel.

However, about 100 people remain trapped inside the tunnel.

With some 80 bridges collapsed and roads damaged in numerous places, there are still many areas that rescue teams cannot even approach.

[Leila Peters Yahia / UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal: Accessing the sites is extremely difficult because the road network has collapsed. About 40 kilometers of roads have been destroyed.]

Nepalese authorities stated that they recovered about 100 additional bodies in and around Bagmati Province within a single day.

A significant number of them are Indian tourists and Chinese workers who went missing near the Trishuli River.

Seven bodies swept away by rapid currents were even recovered in India, more than 150 kilometers away.

Nepal's death toll, which stood at 362 the previous day, increased to 469.

Combined with China, the death toll has reached 472, with over 1,500 missing.

Endless lines of people seeking to confirm the fate of their missing family members continue to form outside funeral homes and hospitals.

[Chamindi Shrestha / Mother of a Missing Person: My son is a driver, and I heard he went as far as 3 kilometers away from the Panchthar area. We were able to speak on the phone until 8:30 (on the day of the accident), but I haven't been able to reach him since.]

With rain forecasted in the region until Sunday, coupled with reports of feared additional flooding, concerns are mounting that rescue operations will become even more difficult.

[Video Editing: Chae Chul-ho]
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