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Funchu Tamang, 101, sits on a bed in a hospital in Nuwakot district on May 4, 2015 around 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Kathmandu. Police had initially said that Tamang was trapped under the rubble of his home ever since the quake struck on April 25, but they later said he was in fact rescued from his garden where he had been sheltering since the disaster. In an interview with AFP on May 4, Tamang said that he was under the rubble for several hours before his daughter-in-law rescued him. “I don’t know if it is luck but I am a strong man … I work in the field and I walk every day,” he said from his hospital bed, confirming his age as 101. AFP PHOTO/ PRAKASH MATHEMA