Camille Naredo

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Chandika Kumari Shrestha

Reuters Wires

Believing she had perished in Nepal&#39;s deadly floods, the family of Chandika Kumari Shrestha started the ritual of mourning the elderly woman&#39;s death.Ten days later, rescuers found her alive inside her collapsed home in the devastated Betrawati village, where she had survived in a narrow pocket of air amid water and mud.<div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2026/9/6/nepali-rescuers-buoyed-by-miracle-finds-but-tough-conditions-persist-2059">READ: Nepali rescuers buoyed by miracle finds but tough conditions persist</a></div>In a rescue operation on Saturday (September 5) lasting 45 minutes, police officer Mahendra Darnal and his team found Shrestha in a confined space and sent her to an army hospital.Shrestha was among the hundreds missing in Betrawati, an area among the hardest hit by the floods in Nepal and engulfed with white deposits compacted almost like concrete. Crews continue to recover scores of dead bodies.The town&#39;s market and most residential buildings, some as tall as four stories, were almost completely buried under debris left by a torrent that swept through the valley, part of a disaster that killed more than 1,300 people across Nepal.&nbsp;Thousands remain unaccounted for.Rescue workers wearing hard hats were seen digging with shovels, while some were crawling through the gaps of collapsed buildings periodically blowing whistles to get the attention of anyone trapped and alive.Five days earlier, 24 bodies were found in a decomposed state in Betrawati&#39;s market area in a building that had contained a small shop, Darnal said.<div>(Production &amp; Editing: Adnan Abidi, Yogendran Sandiran, Sunil Kataria, Writing: Adnan Abidi) &nbsp;</div>

Believing she had perished in Nepal's deadly floods, the family of Chandika Kumari Shrestha started the ritual of mourning the elderly woman's death.

Believing she had perished in Nepal's deadly floods, the family of Chandika Kumari Shrestha started the ritual of mourning the elderly woman's death.

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Nepali woman found alive days after family began mourning rites

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Published September 07, 2026 01:08 AM PHT

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