Ten days after glacial floodwaters tore through Nepal on August 26, rescuers drew two survivors from the wreckage — a Chinese worker pulled from 225 metres underground and a woman lifted from the mud of her collapsed home — small lights held against a darkness that has claimed at least 1,300 lives and left more than 5,000 unaccounted for. The disaster has concentrated its cruelest weight on Nepal's hydropower sites, where some 900 workers have vanished and roughly 500 are believed sealed inside mountain tunnels. In the ancient human struggle between catastrophe and perseverance, international
Nepal rescuers pull Chinese worker, woman from debris 10 days after devastating floods
At least 1,300 people killed in the August 26 floods with over 5,000 missing; approximately 900 workers missing at hydropower projects with roughly 500 believed trapped in tunnels.