Kat Wong
There is renewed hope amid the devastation wreaked by the flash flooding disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border as the world witnesses “one of the great rescues of the 21st century”.
Nine days after the deadly floods, two workers were pulled out alive from a flooded hydropower tunnel in Nepal.
Sanjay Shah and Kabir Maharajan were rescued from the Trishuli 3A hydropower project on Friday, more than a week after a glacial collapse created a torrent of mud, water and debris that swept away buildings, roads and bridges along the border between Nepal and China.
Hundreds more employees who worked in various hydropower projects along the banks of Nepal’s Bhote Koshi and Trishuli rivers remain missing, but the Australian engineer and geologist Arnold Dix, who was invited by Nepali authorities to advise on the Trishuli 3A operation, says Friday’s successful rescue will help lift spirits.
“We’ve found two people alive, so that gives us hope,” Dix says. “After more than a week, everyone’s exhausted, but this spurs us on to try even harder and it now also gives us focus for how we might approach other rescues in other locations.
“We now have proof that people can survive this long.”…
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