Ten days after glacial floodwaters tore through Nepal's mountains on August 26, rescue teams continue to pull survivors from the darkness of collapsed hydropower tunnels — three workers recovered so far from a single project, while roughly 500 remain sealed underground across twelve sites. The disaster, which has claimed at least 1,300 lives and left more than 5,000 unaccounted for, confronts a nation with the particular cruelty of infrastructure turned inward: tunnels built to power a developing country becoming chambers of entrapment. International teams from India, China, South Korea, and t
Nepal rescues 2 more from floods as 900 workers remain missing
At least 1,300 people killed in the floods, with over 5,000 missing and approximately 500 workers trapped in hydropower tunnels across Nepal.