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Exclusive-Trapped nine days in a dark tunnel, Nepali man tells his survival story

Sah survived on floodwater and seepage water after a glacier collapse trapped him inside the mountainside powerhouse, officials said.

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By Sahana Bajracharya KATHMANDU, Sept 11 (Reuters) - When Sanjay Sah got trapped in a dark tunnel linked to a hydropower station after a devastating flood tore through the structure in Nepal, he was so scared of injuring his eyes on debris that he kept...

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(Jakarta=Yonhap News) Correspondent Son Hyun-kyu = "There was nothing I could see. I kept my eyes closed for most of the time. If I accidentally slipped or..."

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A Nepali worker who had been trapped in a dark tunnel of a hydroelectric plant in his country reported the details of his ordeal, after having lived that whole time without food, relying on flood water to survive, while holding hope and thinking of his family to face isolation and darkness until rescue teams arrived.

(Dan Tri Newspaper) - To survive in a hydroelectric tunnel buried by mudslides, a Nepalese worker kept his eyes closed for almost the entire 9 days he was trapped, drinking muddy floodwater to sustain himself.

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theasialive.com broke the news on Friday, September 11, 2026.
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