Around 100 Bodies Recovered in a Single Day Amid Desperate Search Operations

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The scale of human casualties is rapidly increasing. With around 100 bodies recovered in Nepal alone, the death toll in China and Nepal has risen to 472, while the number of missing persons exceeds 1,500.

Reporter Kim Young-a has the details.

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

Nearby, a helicopter waits with a lowering 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 roughly 80 bridges collapsed and roads damaged in various places, there are still a significant number of areas that rescue teams cannot even approach.

[Laila Peters Yahia / UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal: Road networks have collapsed, making access to the site extremely difficult. Approximately 40 kilometers of roads have been destroyed.]

Nepalese authorities announced that they recovered an additional 100 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.

The death toll in Nepal, which stood at 362 the previous day, increased to 469.

Combined with China, the death toll exceeds 472, with more than 1,500 people missing.

Funerals and hospitals are witnessing endless lines of people trying to confirm whether their missing family members are dead or alive.

[Chamindi Shrestha / Mother of Missing Person: My son is a driver, and I heard he went as far as a location 3 kilometers away from the Pancha area. We were able to talk until 8:30 (on the day of the accident), but all contact has been cut off since then.]

With rain forecasted locally until Sunday and news of feared additional overflows coming in, concerns are growing that rescue operations will become even more difficult.

(Video Editing: Chae Chul-ho)
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