Nepal teams seek hundreds trapped in hydropower tunnels after deadly floods
Nepali and foreign rescue teams are using helicopters, excavators and tunnel experts as bad weather and debris slow access to the workers.
- 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 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.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in...
Nepal floods: Hundreds of workers feared stuck in hydropower tunnels as deaths cross 900
Rescuers race to free hundreds of workers trapped in tunnels after catastrophic floods. The combined death toll in Nepal and China surpassed nine hundred people. More than four thousand seven hundred individuals remain missing after the disaster struck. Families desperately search for loved ones lost in the devastating flash floods. Efforts continue to rebuild vital infrastructure and locate the missing.
At least 500 of the 900 workers who disappeared in the Nepali hydroelectric industry would remain trapped in tunnels of energy projects affected by the floods. Experts argue that these structures, made for the passage of trucks, offer space and oxygen to survive, although time is pressing.
Anxiety for the 900 or so trapped workers who have been in hydroelectric project galleries as time goes on. There are no signs of life. Arrests in China The post Nearly 5,000 missing in Nepal and 955 dead — The thriller with those trapped in tunnels continues appeared first on in.gr.
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