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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Kat Wong

Rescue of Nepal hydropower workers ‘triumph for humans and humanity’, tunnelling expert says

Nepal army soldiers carry a mud-covered worker rescued alive from a collapsed tunnel
The Nepal army rescues a worker from the Trishuli 3A hydropower project nine days after the deadly flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border. Photograph: Nepal Army/AP

There is renewed hope amid the devastation wreaked by the flash flooding disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border as the world witnesses “one of the great rescues of the 21st century”.

Nine days after the deadly floods, two workers were pulled out alive from a flooded hydropower tunnel in Nepal.

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