Nepal Searchers Bore Hole Into Trishuli-3A Tunnel for 900 Missing Workers After 100-km Deluge
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Updated · CNN · Aug 30
Nepal Searchers Bore Hole Into Trishuli-3A Tunnel for 900 Missing Workers After 100-km Deluge
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Aug 30
Summary
At Trishuli-3A, rescuers worked through the night into Sunday drilling into a hydropower tunnel to pump air and lower food, hoping to reach workers trapped by Nepal’s flood disaster.
The effort follows a mountain deluge that tore 100 km down the Trishuli valley, sending water, concrete and debris through tunnels and leaving more than 900 hydropower workers missing.
Some 279 workers have been rescued or escaped through mud-filled tunnels, but survivors told CNN many colleagues were swept away and entire work crews remain unaccounted for.
The flood has killed hundreds, buried communities and forced repeated helicopter evacuations, underscoring how Nepal’s hydropower build-out has left remote tunnel workers acutely exposed to Himalayan disasters.