How Engineers Are Using Whatsapp To Guide Nepal's Flood Rescue Efforts

How a WhatsApp Group Is Helping Nepal’s Tunnel Rescue Effort

More than a week after the devastating August 26 flood in Nepal, rescue teams are searching damaged hydropower projects for people who may still be trapped inside tunnels. An engineers’ WhatsApp group has become an important source of real time technical guidance, helping rescuers understand buried tunnel networks and locate possible survivors. WhatsApp Becomes a […]

Nepal floods: How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal's tunnel rescue efforts

The messaging group was set up by engineers before the wall of water, mud ​and rock crashed down the Trishuli valley in Nepal on August 26. It has since become a valuable tool alongside helicopters and heavy ⁠machinery in the race to find survivors.

Engineers use WhatsApp to guide Nepal’s flood rescue efforts

Nepal Army personnel were seen searching for survivors in a hydropower tunnel following flash floods in Rasuwa district. (EPA Images pic)KATHMANDU: An army of experts in a WhatsApp group is guiding rescue workers scouring a Nepali valley after a huge flash flood more than a week ago as they desperately search for anyone who may be alive inside tunnels of devastated hydropower plants.The messaging group was set up by engineers before the wall of …

Nepal flood rescue: WhatsApp group of engineers guides search for survivors in buried hydropower tunnels

Experts use a WhatsApp group to guide rescue workers searching devastated hydropower plant tunnels. They seek survivors trapped inside tunnels after a massive flash flood devastated the valley. Engineers share layout drawings and tunnel access details to aid the difficult search operations. Rescue teams are trying to reach trapped individuals in various power plant locations. Family members anxiously await news of their missing loved ones after …

How Engineers Are Using Whatsapp To Guide Nepal's Flood Rescue Efforts

An army of experts in a WhatsApp group is guiding rescue workers scouring a Nepali valley after a huge flash flood more than a week ago as they desperately search for anyone who may be alive inside tunnels of devastated hydropower plants.

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More than 1,200 people were killed in last week's deluge caused by a glacier collapse