POKHARA, Nepal — Two workers in Nepal were pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel on Friday, some nine days after devastating floods swept the Himalayan region and left thousands of people dead or missing.
\n\nIn a rare glimmer of hope, emergency teams rescued two male workers — a mechanical foreman named Sanjay Sah, 30, and a mechanical supervisor named Kabir Maharjan, 45, according to Nepal’s army and the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Authority.
\n\nTwo Nepal flood survivors rescued from hydropower tunnel
\n\nRescue officials said the voices of other workers could be heard inside the tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower plant along the Trishuli River in Nepal’s border district of Rasuwa. At least 557 workers are still believed to be missing there, with about 115 believed to be trapped in the main tunnel, according to the Independent Power Producers Association of Nepal.
\n\nNepal’s army released images of the dramatic rescue on its official Facebook page, including one showing the first rescued worker covered in mud and being carried from the site on a rescuer’s shoulder.
\n\n“When hope is alive, even the impossible becomes possible,” the image caption read.
\n\nOfficials said both men were flown to a…
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