More than a week after a devastating flood rocked Nepal, killing more than an estimated 1,000 people and trapping others in mud-filled tunnels, new footage shows rescuers racing to find survivors.
Video released by Nepal's Office of the Prime Minister shows a rescue crew giving water to a woman trapped under what looks like a collapsed building.
Other footage shows a man being carried out of a tunnel and into a waiting helicopter.
On Aug. 26, flash floods in Nepal along the border with Tibet. According to Nepal's disaster-relief agency, more than 1,000 have died while more than 3,900 remain missing, including 600 workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of tunnels at hydropower sites along the Trishuli River.
Rescuers rush to give a woman water moments after pulling her alive from her partially buried home in Nepal, 10 days after a devastating wall of ice, rock and mud tore through a Himalayan valley.
Chandika Shrestha, 64, was found on the fourth floor of the home in Nuwakot.
Nepalese Prime Minister Balendra Shah said last week that 279 people have been rescued from the tunnels.
The rescue operation is being led by a team comprising Chinese and Nepalese military personnel, while experts from India, Korea, and Australia are also involved.
Officials earlier said that only 4% of bodies recovered have so far been identified. In Chitwan, a district downstream from where the floods first hit, makeshift burials have been established after the river tides brought nearly 300 bodies to its banks.
Ganesh Aryaal, the chief district officer, told BBC Nepali that loved ones will still be able to retrieve the remains of their family members once they are identified using DNA.
"We don't have enough freezers here... We had to choose this last alternative of temporary burial system. We are really overwhelmed," he said.
While it's been more than a week since the deadly flash floods hit along the China-Nepal border, practically nothing is known about the victims on the Chinese side.
The disaster has once again highlighted China’s tight grip on information surrounding disasters and its efforts to control what is said about them.
The death toll is updated only once every few days, and access to the disaster area has been granted only to top-level state media outlets, which have avoided broadcasting the names or faces of the missing and their relatives in favor of videos showing the logistics of delivering aid or rescue dogs working hard.
