A 28-year-old survivor of Nepal's devastating earthquake was rescued on Tuesday. Rishi Khanal was trapped for 82 hours under the collapsed Kathmandu Hotel.

During those 82 hours, he drank his own urine to survive, Khanal recounted, reports AFP. He was calling his kin on his mobile phone for days before he was rescued by Nepalese and French crew.

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Because his leg was pinned under the rubble, Khanal suffered from leg injury and was carried out on a stretcher when he was taken to the hospital for treatment. Khanal had surgery on his injured leg at the Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital.

He had been staying in Kathmandu hotel since Thursday last week because Khanal was scheduled to fly to Dubai on Sunday where he was about to start work at a KFC outlet.

Khanal called his brother-in-law, Purna Ram Bhattarai, who lives with his family in Arghakhanchhi district. They could talk on the phone until two days after the tremor, said Bhattarai who forget the name of the hotel where Khanal stayed. After the second day, Khanal's phone batteries died, which spurred his relatives to search for him in hospitals and mortuaries.

"We looked everywhere, we went to all the hospitals. Checked patients and even the dead. We had lost all hope of finding him," Bhattarai said.

He added, "Luck saved him, it's like he as a second life. Everybody else is dead."

Besides Khanal, another young Nepalese who survived being buried in the rubble for five days is a teenage male rescued from underneath a collapsed building in Katmandu. The unidentified boy was placed on a stretcher with an IV attached to his arm. Medics placed a blue brace around his neck, while his face was covered in dust and he was blinking at the sunlight, reports Associated Press.

He was trapped between two collapsed floors of a building, said Andrew Olvera, head of a USAID disaster response team.

A BBC correspondent who flew with the Indian team to Tato Pani, located far north of the capital city, recounted that people being evacuated in the remote community had some appalling injuries. An old man's legs were cut and grazed, while another man's head was covered with blood-soaked bandage.

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