These men had a hellish escape from Nepal’s flooded hydro tunnels. They were the lucky ones
As water, concrete and debris stormed through the darkness, almost sweeping him off his feet, Ram Chandra tightly gripped onto one of the rungs studded into the roof of the tunnel he was working in on the banks of Nepal’s Trishuli river. His quick reaction likely saved his life. He and the small group of … The post These men had a hellish escape from Nepal’s flooded hydro tunnels. They were the…
On a fateful night, a group of 62 men working on the Trishuli 3A Hydro Power Project in Nepal found themselves trapped beneath a torrent of water, concrete and debris. Ram Chandra, one of the survivors, recounted his harrowing experience as he clung to a rung in the tunnel roof to escape the rising waters. The flood, triggered by a massive landslide, had claimed the lives of hundreds and left entire communities buried.
Out of the six men Ram Chandra was with, five were eventually rescued, but the situation remains dire for many others. Among the missing are over 900 workers, many of whom hailed from the far west region of Nepal. Those who managed to escape the flood were left with nothing but borrowed clothing, as their own was swept away by the deadly waters.
The search for the trapped workers continues with rescue teams racing against time to save as many lives as possible.
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