Two rescued alive from Nepal tunnel days after flash floods kill 1,300
September 6, 2026 at 06:24 AM
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15 reports · 7 in Arabic, 8 in English · over 246 hours
Watch: Moment 64-year-old Nepali woman is found alive in mud-buried home
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'A rare moment of joy': Nepal tunnel rescues bring hope for more flood survivors
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Nepal rescuers try to reach dozens trapped in tunnel after two pulled out alive
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'It's like layer upon layer of miracles': How Nepal flood survivors were rescued from tunnel
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Watch: Moment workers are rescued from Nepal tunnel
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Nepal says it will need billions in funding to rebuild after flash floods
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Why Nepal floods should worry India
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'Our parents were crossing the border an hour before the flood hit'
(opens the publisher’s site)Rescuers pulled two workers alive from a Nepal hydropower tunnel nine days after flash floods killed more than 1,300 people at the Nepal-Tibet border.
- Sanjaya Shah and Kabir Maharjan were rescued from the Trishuli 3A tunnel on Friday and airlifted to Kathmandu's Army Hospital; Maharjan is in critical condition.
- The body of a third person was found in the same tunnel, and officials believe 39 more people remain trapped there.
- Nepali and Chinese authorities report 1,311 confirmed dead and 5,330 missing from the 26 August floods, believed triggered by a glacial collapse.
- Col Jhabindra Reshmi said rescue teams have pulled more than 400 Nepali nationals and 270 foreign citizens from the flood-hit region.
Latest developments
- Sep 6 — Tunnelling expert Arnold Dix told the BBC that rescuers first had to locate a tunnel entrance buried by the disaster before digging through to reach the trapped workers.
- Sep 6 — Dix described the successful rescue as "layer upon layer of miracles" and said rescue efforts continue for others still trapped in the tunnel.
- Sep 6 — Rescuers found 64-year-old Chandika Shrestha alive in her partially buried home in Nuwakot and airlifted her to a Kathmandu hospital.
- Sep 6 — Nepal's government said it will need billions in funding to rebuild after the flash floods, as reconstruction begins amid debris.
- Sep 6 — Sisters Shreya and Ashna Ahuja are awaiting news of their Texas parents, who went missing after the floods hit their Mount Kailash pilgrimage.
- Sep 6 — Officials estimate about 900 workers are missing across 12 hydropower projects in the region, with roughly 500 potentially still trapped inside tunnels.