Two Workers Rescued Alive From Flooded Tunnel in Nepal After Nine Days

One trapped worker rescued alive from a tunnel in Nepal, official says - AP News

One trapped worker rescued alive from a tunnel in Nepal, official says  AP News

How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal's flood rescue efforts - reuters.com

How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal's flood rescue efforts  reuters.com

Watch: Moment workers are rescued from Nepal tunnel

Rescuers pull two people from a hydropower tunnel more than a week after a massive flash flood devastated the Nepal-China border.

Workers Rescued From Tunnel in Nepal 9 Days After Flood

Rescuers pulled out two people as the search continued for hundreds missing after the flooding catastrophe last week.

By Anupreeta Das and Binod Ghimire

Nepal-Tibet flash flood: Two workers pulled alive from hydropower tunnel nine days after disaster

Officials said the workers were safely rescued from tunnels that were at a depth of 170 metres Two people have been pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after deadly flash floods left them trapped. The workers were rescued during an ongoing operation at the Trishuli 3A tunnel, a hydropower project in one of the areas worst-affected by last week’s deadly Nepal floods, according to army spokesperson Brig Gen Raja Ram Basnet. Continue reading...

By Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Gaurav Pokharel in Kathmandu

2 trapped workers rescued alive from Nepal tunnel 9 days after floods

Two people were ⁠pulled out alive on Friday from a tunnel linked to a hydropower station on the Trishuli River, nine days after an ice, rock ‌and mud slide swept through a valley in Nepal, killing more than 1,200 people and displacing tens of thousands. The two workers pulled from the tunnel at the Upper Trishuli 3A Hydropower Station are Sanjay ⁠Sah, a mechanical foreman, and Kabir Maharjan, a mechanical supervisor, ‌Energy Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha’s office said in a statement. Officia...

By Reuters

Two trapped workers rescued alive from Nepal tunnel nine days after floods

About 900 workers are missing from 12 hydropower projects in Nepal, with roughly 500 believed to be trapped in tunnels

Rescuers pull survivors from ruined tunnels

Rescuers have pulled several survivors from tunnels in Nepal after more than a week of being trapped by the catastrophic flooding and landslides.

'Heard voices': 2 workers make it out alive 9 days after Nepal floods hit tunnel

By TRISHA MAHAJAN

2 people rescued from Nepal tunnel more than a week after flash flood

2 trapped tunnel workers rescued in Nepal more than a week after catastrophic flash floods

Two hydropower workers were pulled from a tunnel buried by debris in Nepal on Friday, more than a week after catastrophic flooding swept through the area, government ministers said. Rescuers cheered as one man was pulled from a muddy opening, video released by the energy ministry showed. He was helped to his feet by rescuers. A photograph showed the second man caked in mud, his hands pressed together in prayer, as rescuers carried him away on an orange stretcher. Th...

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Two trapped tunnel workers rescued in Nepal after floods

Two hydropower workers have been pulled from a tunnel buried by debris in Nepal, more than a week after catastrophic flooding swept through the area, government ministers said.

One trapped worker rescued alive from a tunnel in Nepal, official says

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Rescuers in Nepal pulled a second worker alive from a tunnel Friday, Nepal lawmaker Shri Ram Neupane said.He posted the rescu

Dozens of trapped workers could still be alive in ‘room-like’ structures inside Nepal’s tunnels, officials say

Rescue efforts have increasingly centred on hydroelectric project tunnels along banks of Trishuli river

By Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

2 Rescued Alive From Hydropower Tunnel 9 Days After Nepal Floods: Report

The rescue came nine days after the Aug. 26 floods, likely caused by a glacier collapse, that devastated towns and valleys in Nepal.

How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal’s flood rescue efforts

Authorities hope some of the roughly 900 people reported missing at six hydropower plants may have escaped the deluge because they worked in or fled into tunnels.

How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal's flood rescue efforts

How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal’s flood rescue efforts

KATHMANDU, Sept 4 (Reuters) - An army of experts in a WhatsApp group is guiding rescue workers scouring a Nepali valley after a huge flash flood more than a week ago as they desperately search for anyone who may be alive inside tunnels of devastated hydropower plants.

By Reuters

‘There is still no answer’: Nepali expat in Sharjah awaits news of missing friend in devastating floods

Nepal flood losses estimated at $2.56 billion, official says

Property, housing and infrastructure worth at least $2.56 billion were damaged in Nepal's catastrophic floods last week, the country's disaster authority chief told Reuters on Friday.

By Abubakar Ibrahim