Flashlight in the Tunnel Reveals a "Survivor"... Rescued by the Korean Search Team

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Ten days after the massive flood in Nepal, newly released footage captures the miraculous rescue of a Chinese national trapped inside a power plant tunnel. The survivor stated that there was one more person where he was trapped. Our rescue team has launched an additional search operation.

Reporter Kim Minpyo.

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The moment our rescue worker shines a flashlight toward an arch-shaped structure inside a pitch-black tunnel.

[Rescue Worker: Huh? Okay? Are you okay? Survivor!]

Shouts that a survivor has been found echo through the tunnel, and the team members move urgently.

[Give me the belt, the belt. They found a survivor.]

The man behind the dense steel structure seems relieved upon spotting the rescue team and briefly cracks a faint smile.

Impatient, he fumbles through the steel bars and rushes to climb down beneath the structure on his own.

[Wait. Wait.]

[Lu Haitao / Chinese Survivor (via China's CCTV report): When the rescue workers rescued me, I couldn't even make a sound because I couldn't believe it, even when the light shone in my eyes.]

The dramatic rescue of Chinese national Lu Haitao on the 5th, ten days after the massive flood in Nepal, was entirely captured by the helmet-mounted cameras of the Korean rescue workers.

The rescue site was inside the tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 hydroelectric power plant, which was being constructed by a South Korean company, located 225 meters inward past the mudflats near the entrance and waist-deep water.

Access was extremely difficult due to heavily cluttered, large construction equipment ruined and scattered by the debris flow.

[Im Palsun / Korea Disaster Relief Team Member: A huge amount of rocks had piled up, so it was a situation where we had to pass through a very narrow space to enter all the way into the end of the tunnel.]

The rescued Chinese national, Mr. Lu, pointed with his hand to the place where he was trapped and stated that there was one more person, though their fate remains unknown.

[Rescue Worker: Are there more people? There's one more person, right?]

Accordingly, the Korean rescue team, alongside the Nepalese military, re-entered the tunnel to conduct additional search and rescue operations.

(Photo courtesy of: Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT), Video Editing: Park Chun-bae)
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