97-year-old Nepali woman rescued from flood debris after four-hour operation

Hundreds of people confirmed dead after flash floods triggered by glacier collapse; 97-year-old woman trapped for four hours in care home rubble.

In the high mountain corridors of Nepal, where glaciers have long held the memory of ancient cold, a collapse along the Himalayan border with Tibet sent walls of water crashing through communities below, claiming hundreds of lives in a matter of hours. Among the wreckage of a care home, rescue workers spent four hours carefully dismantling debris to reach Guna Maya Bohara, ninety-seven years old, who emerged alive. Her survival is a singular thread of light woven through a disaster that scientists are linking to the accelerating instability of high-altitude ice — a reminder that the consequenc

97-year-old Nepali woman rescued from flood debris after four-hour operation

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