In the mountains of Nepal, a flash flood sealed workers inside three tunnels, and the world above began to grieve. But grief, it turned out, had moved too quickly — two men emerged alive after nine days in darkness, and a woman was found breathing after her family had already begun her funeral rites. These recoveries remind us that the boundary between the lost and the living is rarely as fixed as disaster makes it seem, and that the act of continuing to search is itself a form of faith.
Nepal rescue operations intensify as workers found alive in tunnel collapse
Multiple workers trapped in tunnels by flash flood; at least two survived nine days underground; one woman found alive after family began mourning rites.