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.
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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. The mud-covered worker was then carried away on a rescuer’s shoulder, while a medical team checked on him.
