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The Economic Times
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Two people rescued alive from Nepal hydropower tunnel

Kathmandu: Two people were pulled out ​alive on Friday ​from a tunnel linked to a ​hydropower station on the Trishuli River, nine days after a ice, rock and mud slide swept through a ‌valley in ⁠Nepal, ⁠killing more than 1,200 people and displacing tens of ​thousands.

The two workers pulled from the tunnel at the ​Upper Trishuli 3A Hydropower Station are Sanjay Sah, a mechanical foreman, and Kabir Maharjan, a ​mechanical supervisor, Energy Minister Biraj ⁠Bhakta Shrestha's ‌office said in a statement.

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