DHAKA: Rescuers have pulled a 101-year-old man alive from his ruined home a week after Nepal’s earthquake, even as the government warned on Sunday that toll, already exceeding 7,200, would climb ‘much higher’.

Trapped since April 25 when the quake struck, Funchu Tamang was rescued on Saturday from the rubble of his house with only minor injuries to his ankle and hand, reports the Times of India.

“He was brought to the district hospital in a helicopter. His condition is stable,” local police officer Arun Kumar Singh said from Nuwakot district, around 80km northwest of Kathmandu.

Three women were also rescued in Sindhupalchok, one of the worst-hit districts. The rescues were the only good news as cops found 51 bodies, including those of trekkers, in northern Rasuwa district that was hit by an avalanche last week.

Officials warned of more grim news as an entire village was swept away in the avalanche.

BDST: 0910 HRS, MAY 04, 2015
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