Sichuan earthquake: power plant worker rescued after being left stranded on mountainside for 2 weeks
- Gan Yu was found by a villager who learned that rescuers were trying to find him after he was left on a mountainside by a colleague who went to look for help
- Gan, who worked at the Wandong hydropower station in Luding county, had helped save local villagers from being inundated after the magnitude 6.8 quake struck
Gan Yu, a worker at the Wandong hydropower station in Sichuan’s Luding county, was found by a local villager on Wednesday, who had heard about rescuers’ attempts to reach him.
Ni Taigao, the villager who found Gan told local news portal Thecover.cn that he learned rescuers were searching for the 28-year-old two days ago and decided to help because he was very familiar with the hill of Menghugang, where Gan was eventually found.
He left a relative’s house at 7am with two bottles of water and some food. After hiking for more than two hours, he heard someone calling for help on a hillside and found Gan lying in the woods.
Gan’s clothes were torn and had injuries on his legs. Ni said he immediately called the local government and gave him a drink.
“He looked fine, but he cried a lot when seeing me and said it was good that he met me,” Ni said. He also called his family to bring clothes for him.
They transferred Gan to a care station in Menghugang, where a helicopter took him to a local hospital.
