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2 workers pulled alive from Nepal tunnel 9 days after deadly flash flooding

Two people have been pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after deadly flash floods buried the project in deep mud and left them trapped. The workers were rescued during an ongoing operation at the Trishuli 3A tunnel, a hydropower project in one of the areas worst affected by last week’s deadly […]

Two Nepalese workers were rescued alive after being trapped for nine days in a hydropower tunnel that was inundated by flash floods. The rescue took place at the Trishuli 3A tunnel, one of the areas severely hit by the deadly Nepal floods. The first worker, Sanjay Shah, was pulled from the tunnel's entrance and taken to a barracks in Trishuli, where he was in stable condition.

His colleague, Kabir Maharjan, was also rescued from a depth of 170 meters inside the tunnel. Both men were in stable condition and had been flown to a hospital in Kathmandu. Shah, the tunnel's foreman, and Maharjan were supervisors. They were rescued after authorities heard their voices inside the tunnel, from which they had been trapped for nine days.

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