Man rescued, more voices heard at flood-stricken Nepali power plant where scores trapped
Rescuers in Nepal successfully pulled two survivors from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower plant nine days after catastrophic floods trapped workers. The operation involved complex geological assessment and debris removal to reach the underground site.
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Two people have been rescued from a tunnel in Nepal and voices have been heard, nine days after massive flash floods and landslides hit the Nepal-China border trapping hundreds of workers inside multiple Himalayan energy projects. In a dramatic breakthrough for what has been a desperate, round-the-clock rescue effort in treacherous conditions, the two men were pulled in quick succession from inside the Trishuli 3A hydropower plant, where an operation has been underway to bore into a tunnel to search for 42 workers that were unaccounted for. Here’s a look at what we know - and don’t know - so far. What happened when they found the men? Video showed about a dozen rescuers pulling a man from a small hole in the ground and clapping as he reached safety. “Rescuers heard voices,” Bipin Regmi, police chief in the flood-hit district of Nuwakot told CNN.
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