Nepal Army Races to Rescue 900 Workers Trapped in Flooded Hydropower Tunnels

Approximately 900 workers are missing and trapped in flooded hydropower tunnels, with rescue operations ongoing.

Beneath the Himalayan foothills, nearly nine hundred workers were swallowed by floodwater inside the tunnels of Nepal's growing hydropower infrastructure — passages built to harness nature's abundance that became, in an instant, its trap. More than a full day passed before the Nepal Army could reach them, a delay that speaks not only to the remoteness of the terrain but to the fragility of the systems societies build when ambition outruns preparedness. This is a story as old as human industry: the workers who descend into the earth to power the lives of others, and the question of what is owed

Nepal Army Races to Rescue 900 Workers Trapped in Flooded Hydropower Tunnels

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