鈥業 had hope ... but yesterday I鈥檇 given up鈥
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A MAN pulled from the rubble of a collapsed hotel by French and Nepali rescuers more than three days after the earthquake says he was forced to drink his own urine to survive.
Rishi Khanal, 27, had just finished lunch at a hotel in Kathmandu and had gone up to the second floor when everything suddenly started to move and fall apart. He was struck by falling masonry and trapped with his foot crushed under rubble.
“I had some hope but by yesterday I’d given up. My nails went all white and my lips cracked ... I was sure no one was coming for me. I was certain I was going to die,” he said from his hospital bed.
He was surrounded by dead people and a terrible smell. But he kept banging on the rubble around him and eventually this was heard by the team which extracted him after an operation lasting many hours. By the time he was pulled out, he had been trapped for 82 hours.
“There was no sound going out, or coming in. I kept banging against the rubble and finally someone responded and came to help. I hadn’t eaten or had anything to drink so I drank my own urine.”
“It feels good. I am thankful,” he said.
He was taken away for surgery before he could give any more details of his ordeal.
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