A 101-year-old man was pulled alive from the rubble of his house seven days after it collapsed in a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 25, police said on Sunday.
Lifting the gloom on a day marred by more aftershocks that kept people in Nepal on edge and a rising death toll that topped the 7,000-mark, rescuers on Sunday pulled out four more survivors from under the debris of their homes who were miraculously alive eight days after the quake.
A 101-year-old man was pulled alive from the rubble of his house seven days after it collapsed in a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 25, police said on Sunday.
According to AFP, Funchu Tamang was rescued on Saturday with only minor injuries and airlifted to a district hospital, local police officer Arun Kumar Singh told media agencies.
"He was brought to the district hospital in a helicopter. His condition is stable," said Singh in Nuwakot district around 80 kilometres northwest of Kathmandu.
"He has injuries on his left ankle and hand. His family is with him."
Meanwhile, three women were also rescured from under rubble on Sunday. They were found near the mountainous Syauli village and have been taken to a nearby military hospital for treatment. The district - located about 60 kilometres west from here - is the worst hit by the 7.9-magnitude temblor, with the highest number of casualties.
Hopes of finding more survivors were rekindled as rescuers pulled out two men and a woman alive from under mounds of debris, eight days after the devastating quake struck the Himalayan nation and three days after a teenage boy and a woman were saved.
At least 7,056 people have been confirmed dead from the 7.9-magnitude April 25 quake while the number of injured has risen to 14,227, with Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat saying the death toll is expected to climb "much higher".
Fresh aftershocks, including one measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale, sent a new wave of panic among people, most of whom have been staying in the open battling bad weather and scarce food and water supplies following the country's worst earthquake in 80 years.
At least 38 Indians are among 54 foreigners killed in the quake that left a trail of devastation and suffering, flattening buildings and uprooting electric poles and trees.
India has sent 170 tonnes of relief materials for the earthquake-hit people in Nepal through train, giving a major boost to its efforts to help the Himalayan nation.
The relief material has been sent using the rail route - from Old Delhi Railway station to Indo-Nepal border town of Raxaul.
This is for the first time that train has been used to send relief to Nepal.
(With agency inputs)
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