Nepal teams seek hundreds trapped in hydropower tunnels after deadly floods
Rescuers say more than 900 workers are missing as rain and rising river waters slow efforts to reach blocked tunnel entrances.
- On Sunday, Nepal Army rescue teams resumed efforts to reach workers trapped in mud-swamped tunnels at the Trishuli-3A site after rain and rising river waters hampered operations earlier in the day.
- A glacial collapse on the China-Nepal border on Wednesday triggered a massive wall of mud and debris, leaving 933 hydropower workers missing, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority.
- The Nepal Electricity Authority reported 11 hydropower stations and one solar station stopped operating, with 15 additional projects under construction damaged, representing about 10 percent of electricity generation capacity.
- More than 800 people are confirmed dead and over 3,000 are missing, though government officials state more than 100 workers may still be alive inside multiple tunnels.
- Specialised Indian and Chinese tunnel-rescue teams have joined the search alongside expert mountain rescue teams from Everest, navigating the "difficult conditions" teams face at disaster sites.
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Workers trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites in Nepal after catastrophic flooding
Rescuers tried to free hundreds of workers Monday believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border. The post Workers trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites in Nepal after catastrophic flooding appeared first on KYMA.
The operations to reach the workers who were trapped in the tunnels of various hydroelectric plants after the devastating floods of last week continue unceasingly in Nepal....
The flood in Nepal hit many hydroelectric power plants – and thus the workers there. Victims could still live in tunnels. There are almost 900 workers missing contact.
Many of them are said to have stayed in about half a dozen tunnels at the time of the flood. Hydropower's boom is exacerbating the dimension of the disaster.
(Hanoi=Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Jin-hyung = On the 31st (local time), the sixth day since the massive floods struck the Himalayan mountain region on the Nepal-China border, Nepalese authorities...
A race against time has gripped Nepal, with more than 900 people still trapped in tunnels connected to 13 hydroelectric power plants on flooded rivers. Nepalese authorities are now using controlled explosions to penetrate the slopes and free trapped workers, the BBC reported.
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