{
  "id": 5351847,
  "title": "Nepali survivor recounts 'fight through darkness' to escape flood-hit tunnel",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/nepali-survivor-recounts-fight-through-darkness-to-escape-flood-hit",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-03T14:46:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Al-Monitor",
    "slug": "al-monitor",
    "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/nepali-survivor-recounts-fight-through-darkness-escape-flood-hit-tunnel"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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. Under the industrial floodlights, dust started to rise, the 32-year-old recalled: \"Something was coming.\"",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}