Nine days after flash floods tore through Nepal and claimed nearly 1,300 lives, rescue workers pulled two men alive from a tunnel — a moment that arrived long after hope had begun to harden into grief. The rescue did not alter the scale of the catastrophe, but it interrupted the arithmetic of loss with something older and more stubborn: the refusal to stop searching. In the shadow of one of the region's deadliest disasters, two men emerged from darkness into daylight, and the question that followed was not only how they survived, but how many others might still be waiting.
Two men rescued from tunnel 9 days after deadly Nepal floods kill nearly 1,300
Nearly 1,300 people have died in flash floods that swept through Nepal; two men were rescued from a tunnel nine days after the disaster.