101-year-old survives Nepal earthquake

Funchu Tamang sits on a bed in hospital after being pulled out alive from the rubble left by the Nepali earthquake. - AFP/Getty Images — Funchu Tamang sits on a bed in hospital after being pulled out alive from the rubble left by the Nepali earthquake. – AFP/Getty Images

KATHMANDU. – A 101-year-old man has been pulled alive from the rubble of his house in Nepal seven days after an earthquake hit the country, police said yesterday. Funchu Tamang was rescued on Saturday with only minor injuries and airlifted to a district hospital in Nuwakot district around 80km northwest of Kathmandu, said a local police officer, Arun Kumar Singh.

“He was brought to the district hospital in a helicopter. His condition is stable,” said Singh. Police also rescued three women from beneath rubble yesterday in Sindhupalchowk, one of the districts worst hit by the quake, although it was not immediately known how long they had been trapped.

One had been buried by a landslide while the other two were under the rubble of a collapsed house.

“They are being taken to hospital for treatment,” said Suraj Khadka, an officer with the Armed Police Force in Kathmandu.

Nepal’s government had on Saturday ruled out finding more survivors buried in the ruins of the capital, Kathmandu. – The Guardian.