105-year-old pulled out of quake rubble

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Eight days after a devastating earthquake ravaged Nepal, three people, including a 105-year-old, were found alive from under the rubble in their home in village of Sindhupal Chowk. Centenarian Fanchu Ghale  of Khimtang village in Nuwakot, was rescued on Saturday afternoon by the Nepal Police. The rescuers have recovered him, and two others, eight days after he was buried in the earthquake, according to police. Apart from minor injuries in his limbs, his health condition is said to be fine. Fanchu was in his twenties when Nepal’s last major earthquake occurred in 1934. He told the media that he survived by eating flour and drinking water from containers lying near him.  

Daily Pioneer
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