By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Rescue crews and foreign specialists are racing to find scores of workers feared trapped alive inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud buried the facilities during last week’s devastating flash floods.
By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Rescue crews and foreign specialists are racing to find scores of workers feared trapped alive inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud buried the facilities during last week’s devastating flash floods.
Drone pilot Manish Maharjan has helped rescue teams in Nepal find people missing after last week’s catastrophic floods. The teams have sometimes used speakers mounted on the devices to call out to or play music for those stranded on hillsides.
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- 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.
The death toll in Nepal has crossed 1,000 from the deadly floods that tore through an area on the border with Tibet on August 26, and nearly 4,000 people remain missing. six days on hopes for survivors are dimming, but rescuers focused on a network of hydropower sites along the Trishuli River are ho…
Rescue teams in Nepal were still searching Wednesday for hundreds of workers believed to have been trapped inside sprawling hydropower tunnels since the catastrophic flash flood that swept through the Himalayan region last week.
Nepali authorities believe that the dozens of workers trapped in hydropower tunnels could still be alive, as some of the tunnels have chambers with air supplies. But rescue teams are still struggling, with difficult weather and heavy rains worsening the situation, reports France 24's Shahzaib Wahlah…
KATHMANDU — Rescue teams raced Wednesday to reach dozens of workers believed to be trapped in hydropower tunnels in Nepal's mountains, offering one of the last hopes of finding survivors a week after a Himalayan flood killed more than 1,200…
About 46 people believed to be trapped in ‘room-like’ structure inside hydro plant tunnel on Nepal-Tibet border After the flood: human suffering on an unfathomable scale in Nepal’s worst-hit districts Nepal authorities have said they are “confident” that dozens of workers in Nepal’s Rasuwagadhi hydr…
By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Hopes are fading for a quick rescue operation as Nepali crews and foreign specialists race to find scores of workers feared trapped alive inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud buried the facilities during last week’s devastating flash floods.
By Saurabh Sharma and Joseph Campbell TARKESHWAR, Nepal, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Dhan Bahadur Tamang was at work in a hydropower project near Nepal's border with China when he sensed a sudden air pressure change in the underground tunnel at the Upper Trishuli 1 hydropower project.
A Nepalese worker recounts his harrowing escape from a hydropower project tunnel after last week's devastating flood. Around 900 workers remain trapped in tunnels at six hydroelectric plants in Nepal as the number of missing in the Himalayan disaster rose to 5,624 on Thursday, according to Nepalese …
By Bhadra Sharma, Lex Harvey, CNN Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — Two people have been rescued from inside the tunnels of a stricken Nepali hydropower plant, and voices have been heard, nine days after massive flash floods and landslides trapped hundreds of workers inside multiple Himalayan energy projects…
By Bhadra Sharma, Lex Harvey, CNN Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — Voices have been heard from inside the tunnels of a stricken Nepali hydropower plant, a local police chief and a lawmaker told CNN, the first signs of life eight days after massive flash floods and landslides trapped hundreds of workers insi…
By Bhadra Sharma, Lex Harvey, CNN Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — A man has been rescued from inside the tunnels of a stricken Nepali hydropower plant, where more voices have been heard, local officials told CNN, nine days after massive flash floods and landslides trapped hundreds of workers inside multipl…
Rescuers in Nepal have pulled two workers alive from a hydropower tunnel, raising hopes of reaching a dozen others believed to be trapped nine days after catastrophic floods devastated towns and swept away villages.
Rescuers in Nepal have pulled two workers alive from a tunnel at a hydropower plant. That is raising hopes of reaching dozens of others believed to be trapped nine days after deadly floods swept away villages and submerged the Himalayan region in mud and debris.
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