Ten days after being trapped again: Hanoi workers and a family search for loved ones ten days and nights

Deep in the tunnel, one person is still alive

On September 5, in the Lasuva region of Nepal. After rescuers entered the heavily injured tunnel of the hydropower project, a Chinese worker who had been missing for ten days was found. The 49-year-old Henan Land Sea Toro was then rescued and transported to the hospital by helicopter.

This is not a story that begins with disaster numbers, but for the family of the Land Rover, there is only one of the most important questions in the last ten days: where exactly he is.

First time working abroad, first time experiencing such a disaster

Interview with the Maritime Family on September 6th.His family said that Land Heathrow came from Hanoi, where he previously worked as a farmer and timber worker; in February this year, he went to work with his countrymen to Nepal, which was his first overseas work.

After the flood, the family could not even say exactly where the project was located. The family began to look for clues from news reports, mutual assistance groups and local Nepalese information, and someone used translation tools to read local news.

On August 26, severe floods and dirt streams hit the border area of Xinjiang, destroying several roads, hydroelectric facilities and construction sites in the Tri-Shuri River Valley.

For ten days, the family searched for a person by photo

Land Haitao's sister, Lu Hai Yong, told the Associated Press that she learned that her brother may have been rescued before the official news was widely disseminated, but really made the family believe the news was the photo appeared in the news.

Relatives repeatedly compared to the face of the rescued.For them, it was not a news picture, but a ten-day search that finally came up with confirmed answers.

A cousin of L'Oreal, L'Oreal, said the family had difficulty eating and sleeping normally during the period of disconnection. She searched Nepalese news every day in the hope of finding a clue from strange languages and images of disasters.

How rescuers found the tunnel entrance

The disaster changed the landscape of the valley, and some roads and construction entrances were buried by dirt streams.The rescue was therefore not only excavation, but also a work to rediscover the engineering structure.

Related rescue reports show that hydropower engineers set up a WhatsApp group of more than 500 people, sending project structural maps, tunnel entrances and construction information to the site staff.

Two other Nepalese workers survived from another hydropower tunnel before the land tide was rescued.The tunnel may become a barrier when the flood arrives, but once the entrance is blocked, it quickly becomes a closed space isolated from the outside.

He heard the whistle, but thought it was an illusion.

Descriptions after the rescue showed that he had moved to a higher position inside the tunnel.After being stuck for a long time, he heard the whistles of rescuers and also saw the lights in the distance.

At first, he even suspected it was just an illusion.

He tried to scream, but the voice was not immediately answered until rescuers continued to approach, and the lights eventually lit where he was.

On September 5th, the ten days of disappearance ended.

A family is waiting for news, and a family is not.

The situation is stable after the earthquake was rescued, which is rare in the catastrophe, but his story is not the end of the catastrophe.

The flooding of the Xinjiang border has caused a large number of deaths and disappearances, and many hydropower projects are still under search and rescue operation.The number of casualties announced at different stages is still changing; information on the Chinese-Tibetan side is mainly published by the official channels of the Communist Party of China, and independent verification conditions are limited.

In the end, a family could recognize a loved one from a news photo, while other families were still waiting for the same photo, a phone call, or a name.

Disaster news is usually presented by the number of deaths, disappearances and rescues, but for each family, the “1” on the statistical table is never an abstract number.

This time it’s called the sea.