'Heard voices': 2 workers make it out alive 9 days after Nepal floods hit tunnel
Two workers were rescued alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after being trapped by catastrophic floods. While this rescue provides hope, hundreds remain missing across multiple hydropower sites in the region.
Why it matters
The incident underscores the massive scale of the disaster in Nepal and the extreme difficulty of rescue operations in flood-ravaged infrastructure.
Rescuers in Nepal pulled two workers alive from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower project on Friday, nine days after devastating floods and landslides trapped hundreds of workers inside tunnels across several hydropower sites.The rescue brought a dramatic breakthrough to a desperate operation, but hopes of finding more survivors rose further after rescuers heard voices coming from inside the tunnel, according to Bipin Regmi, police chief in the flood-hit district of Nuwakot.“Rescuers heard voices,” Regmi told CNN, adding that a medical team was on its way to the site.The two workers were pulled out in quick succession from inside the Trishuli 3A plant, where rescuers have been boring into a tunnel in an effort to reach 42 workers who had remained unaccounted for.Video showed about a dozen rescuers pulling one man through a small opening in the ground and clapping as he emerged.
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