Nepali Army choppers are flying non-stop, rescuing people from flood-affected areas in Rasuwa and Nuwakot.
The rescued are being brought to Dhunche, where there are long queues of people waiting to get a seat on a chopper to Kathmandu.
Many of those rescued from the flood zone want to move to Kathmandu, and the only way out are the Army choppers as the devastating floods have destroyed and submerged many roads in and around the area.
The NDTV team reporting from the Dhunche Army helipad on the rescue operations witnessed long queues of locals and rescued citizens waiting in line for a ride to Kathmandu.
The Army is prioritising the use of choppers to first rescue those stranded in higher reaches. People sit in long, serpentine and ever-expanding queues, waiting for as long as 24 to 48 hours for their turn to hop on to a chopper.
#NepalFloods | A desperate wait for a way out: The queue to Kathmandu is getting longer, and so is the wait for a chopper ride. NDTV’s @DeoSikta reports from Rasuwa’s Dunche helipad area.
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They are registered at the Army camp and names are called out in order for people to board the chopper to Kathmandu.
Nepal has been carrying out search and rescue operations for people believed to be trapped inside 11 flood-affected hydropower projects in Rasuwa and Nuwakot along the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli river corridors.
According to the Independent Power Producers’ Association, Nepal (IPPAN), a representative body of private-sector power developers, a total of 897 people employed at 11 hydropower projects in the flood-affected districts of Rasuwa and Nuwakot remain out of contact.
At the request of the Nepali government, Indian and Chinese tunnel technicians have arrived in Nepal and are engaged in rescue efforts to evacuate people trapped inside hydropower tunnels.
Massive flash floods, believed to have been triggered by a collapse or avalanche of ice and rock near the Nepal-Tibet border, devastated towns and villages in northern and central Nepal on August 26. Over a thousand people have been killed and thousands remain missing.
The Bhotekoshi River, flowing south from the Himalayan border region, carried the floodwaters downstream, sweeping away homes, vehicles, roads and bridges and causing extensive damage to hydropower projects.
