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  "id": 6103274,
  "title": "Nepal tunnel rescues face 'unprecedented' challenge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/nepal-tunnel-rescues-face-unprecedented-challenge-6103274",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-07T04:52:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Economic Times",
    "slug": "the-economic-times",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/nepal-tunnel-rescues-face-unprecedented-challenge/articleshow/133864033.cms"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Kathmandu, Nepal is grappling with an unprecedented rescue challenge following a devastating flood on August 26, 2023, that claimed at least 1,385 lives and left over 5,500 people missing across Nepal and China. Australian rescue expert Arnold Dix, president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, expressed that this situation has never been faced before - multiple potential rescues are underway simultaneously in various locations, each presenting its own dangers, uncertainties, and chances for saving lives.\n\nDix emphasized that the rescue efforts are ongoing, maintaining the same intensity as day one, as Nepal Army spokesman Raja Ram Basnet confirmed to AFP. The focus remains on search and rescue at three levels - on ground, by air, and in the tunnels. The team is determined to ensure nobody remains stranded.\n\nThree workers were rescued from deep inside tunnels - two Nepalis on Friday and a Chinese man on Saturday, which sparked hope for finding more survivors. Foreign experts from China, India, and South Korea are providing support to Nepali teams, including Dix, who is a key advisor from the Indian rescue of 41 men trapped for 17 days in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand in 2023.\n\nDix stressed that the team's success is measured not only by the lives they save but also by the lives they refuse to abandon, a lesson learned from the Silkyara tunnel tragedy.",
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        "outlet": "Bangkok Post",
        "title": "Nepal tunnel rescues face 'unprecedented' challenge",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/nepal-tunnel-rescues-face-unprecedented-challenge-6105960",
        "published": "2026-09-07T04:45:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Nepal tunnel rescues face ‘unprecedented’ challenge",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/nepal-tunnel-rescues-face-unprecedented-challenge-6101939",
        "published": "2026-09-07T05:12:44.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "Nepal tunnel rescues face 'unprecedented' challenge",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/nepal-tunnel-rescues-face-unprecedented-challenge",
        "published": "2026-09-07T05:16:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times",
        "title": "Silkyara fame rescuer faces a never-before challenge in Nepal: 'Multiple potential rescues'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/silkyara-fame-rescuer-faces-a-never-before-challenge-in-nepal",
        "published": "2026-09-07T09:55:03.000Z"
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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."
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