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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Cait Kelly in Kathmandu and William Christou

Nepal rescuers race to reach hundreds feared trapped in hydropower tunnels

Two soldiers in hard hats make their along a tunnel by torchlight
Nepali soldiers search for survivors in a hydropower tunnel in Rasuwa district, Nepal. Photograph: Prime Minister Secretariat, Nepal/AFP/Getty Images

Rescue teams are working to reach more than 900 missing hydropower workers, hundreds of whom are feared trapped in the tunnels and underground areas of 12 hydropower projects in Nepal after the devastating flash floods, ​the ⁠country’s disaster ​management authority has said.

The death toll from the ⁠unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud ​and debris on Wednesday last week has risen to 939 people, with 16 more dead reported in Tibet. More than 4,400 are missing on the two sides of the border.

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