Second survivor pulled alive from Kathmandu quake rubble after five days
Survivor, 15, found under collapsed guesthouse and climbing will resume on Everest next week
Rescue workers yesterday pulled a second survivor from the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Nepal's capital, five days after a massive earthquake that killed about 5,500 people.
They worked into the night to pull the woman, a kitchen worker in her 30s, to safety, the second such rescue in a day after that of a 15-year-old boy in another hotel just streets away.
Nepalese soldiers and a huge team of experts from France, Norway and Israel who had worked on the rescue cheered and clapped as the woman was carried by stretcher to a waiting ambulance.
"She was injured but she was conscious and talking," a Nepal army major said.
"She has been sent to a military hospital," he said, identifying the woman as Krishna Devi Khadka.
"It is as though she had been born again."
Earlier, grainy broadcast footage showed US and Nepalese rescuers pulling out 15-year-old survivor Pemba Tamang, who said he stayed alive by eating ghee.