Daily Mail :A Nepal earthquake survivor who was trapped under rubble next to dead bodies for 82 hours today told how he stayed alive by drinking his own urine.Rishi Khanal, 27, had just finished lunch at a hotel in Kathmandu and had gone up to the second floor when the 7.8-magnitude quake caused the building to crumble around him.He was struck by falling masonry and became trapped with his foot crushed under rubble. Speaking from his hospital bed today, surrounded by his family, he said: ‘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.’It came as the first British fatality from the earthquake was confirmed today. The British Foreign Office said the victim was a non-UK resident, but did not release any further details. Mr Khamal said he was surrounded by dead bodies and a terrible smell.But he kept banging on the rubble all around him and eventually this brought a French rescue team that extracted him after an operation lasting many hours. By the time he was pulled out, he had been trapped – in what could have become his tomb – 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 was not clear if he was a hotel employee or a guest.’It feels good. I am thankful,’ he said. He taken away for surgery before more details could be obtained.A mother dug for hours through the rubble of her collapsed home to recover the bodies of two of her children, but miraculously found her young son had survived.Sunthalia’s home was destroyed in Jharibar, a village in the hilly Gorkha district of Nepal close to the quake’s epicentre.With her husband away in India and with no help in sight, she was forced to retrieve the bodies of her 10-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son herself.But she spotted her other son, aged four, still moving. ‘I could see my son’s fingers fluttering through the pile of stones. ‘That’s how I could see him and save him,’ Sunthalia said, sitting listlessly on the ground, her son by her side, with the stench of dead cattle still in the ruins of her house. The government has yet to fully assess the devastation wrought by Saturday’s quake, unable to reach many mountainous areas despite aid supplies and personnel pouring in from around the world.Anger and frustration were mounting steadily, with many Nepalis sleeping out in the open under makeshift tents for a fourth night since the country’s worst quake in more than 80 years.’This is a disaster on an unprecedented scale. There have been some weaknesses in managing the relief operation,’ Nepal’s Communication Minister Minendra Rijal said late on Tuesday.Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has told Reuters the death toll could reach 10,000, with information on casualties and damage from far-flung villages and towns yet to come in.
