Nepal teams seek hundreds trapped in hydropower tunnels after deadly floods
Rescuers say at least 900 workers are unaccounted for as debris blocks access and teams use excavators, blasts and search lights to clear the tunnels.
- 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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The first aid workers are working tirelessly, in perilous conditions and in spite of the risks of a new rise in water. The tunnels of several hydroelectric plant sites are searched.
Following the unprecedented flood of ice, rocks, mud and debris that fell in Nepal on Wednesday, 26 August, the Nepalese authorities reported that 933 workers were missing in factory undergrounds.
Rescuers race to reach trapped workers
Rescue teams were working to reach more than 900 people thought to be trapped in the tunnels and underground areas of half a dozen hydropower projects in Nepal following the devastating flash floods, ?the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said yesterday.The death toll from th
Several tunnels used for hydroelectric projects have been blocked after massive flooding.
On the 31st (local time), the sixth day since massive floods struck the Himalayan mountain region on the Nepal-China border, Nepalese authorities are accelerating rescue operations to save approximately 900 people believed to be trapped in hydroelectric power plant tunnels and other areas. The Nepal Disaster Management Authority announced that day that at least 933 workers are estimated to be trapped inside tunnels at about six local hydroelectr…
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.
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