Woman Pulled Alive From Buried Nepal House After Family Held Her Funeral
· World · New York Times, Reuters
A woman was rescued from a mostly buried house in flood-hit Nepal after her family had already performed her funeral, believing she had died. The rescue gave new hope to a town devastated by the flooding. Earlier on Saturday, another survivor had been pulled from a tunnel in the same area. The exact death toll, the identity of the rescued woman, and the precise location within Nepal were not given in the source. The scale of the flooding and the number of people still missing or stranded remain unclear from the available reporting.
Why it matters
The story points to the scale of destruction in Nepal's worst-hit towns, where survivors are still being found days after the floods hit and families have had to hold funerals before all the missing are accounted for. It also signals that rescue operations are still yielding live recoveries, raising questions about how many more people may still be trapped under debris.
Read the original report — New York Times
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