82 hours trapped in Nepal Earthquake rubble

The man that French rescuers freed from the ruins of a three-storey Kathmandu hotel more than three days after the quake, said he drank his own urine to survive.

Rishi Khanal, 27, had just finished lunch at a hotel on Saturday and had gone up to the second floor when everything suddenly started moving and falling. 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.