Nepal teams seek hundreds trapped in hydropower tunnels after deadly floods
Specialized teams from India and China joined the search as Nepal said more than 900 hydropower workers were missing and some may still be alive.
- On Sunday, Nepal Army rescue teams resumed efforts to reach workers trapped in mud-swamped tunnels at the Trishuli-3A site after rain and rising river waters hampered operations earlier in the day.
- A glacial collapse on the China-Nepal border on Wednesday triggered a massive wall of mud and debris, leaving 933 hydropower workers missing, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority.
- The Nepal Electricity Authority reported 11 hydropower stations and one solar station stopped operating, with 15 additional projects under construction damaged, representing about 10 percent of electricity generation capacity.
- More than 800 people are confirmed dead and over 3,000 are missing, though government officials state more than 100 workers may still be alive inside multiple tunnels.
- Specialised Indian and Chinese tunnel-rescue teams have joined the search alongside expert mountain rescue teams from Everest, navigating the "difficult conditions" teams face at disaster sites.
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Nepal is trying to rescue hundreds of people trapped in tunnels in hydroelectric power stations after the storms that devastated regions of the Himalayas.
Nepal Floods: 500 Workers Feared Trapped in Tunnels as Death Toll Surpasses 950 | 🌎 LatestLY
Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border, as the death toll climbed and increasingly desperate families searched for missing loved ones. 🌎 Nepal Floods: 500 Workers Feared Trapped in Tunnels as Death Toll Surpasses 950.
Controlled explosion in Nepal hydroelectric tunnel as rescuers search for hundreds of missing workers Rescuers in Nepal are continuing their desperate search for hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in hydroelectric tunnels, six days after deadly flash floods hit the country last Wednesday. The ferocity of the floods has almost wiped out all traces of power plants in many parts of northern Nepal.
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Nepali rescue services are stepping up their efforts to access as soon as possible the tunnels of hydroelectric power stations razed by last Wednesday’s flood, where hundreds of workers are feared to have been trapped alive. Work is focusing on about half a dozen stations along the Trishuli River in the districts of Rasuwa and Nuwakot, the most affected by the disaster, although for now no one has been located alive in the underground pipelines.…
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