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​Nepalese rescue teams continued on Saturday to search for survivors in tunnels in the north of the country after finding two workers on Friday who had been trapped inside since the devastating floods that swept the region on August 26, according to the army.
​Spokesperson for the Nepali Army, Raja Ram Basnet, said: "Search and rescue operations continue this morning. Efforts are being made inside the tunnels... We have no new information, but work is ongoing."
​Nine days after the disaster, two Nepali workers, Sanjay Sah (30 years old) and Kabir Maharjan (45 years old), were pulled on Friday from a tunnel at the "Trishuli-3" dam construction site, where they had been trapped.
​Sah said in a video clip broadcast by a Nepali news outlet: "There were at least 40 or 45 of us at the time of the flood. I could not escape alone (...) I asked them all to run. I didn't have time to get out."
​Following the occurrence of the flood, Nepali authorities said that about a hundred workers were trapped inside the tunnel.
​Dozens of rescuers are racing against time under harsh geographical and climatic conditions in an effort to rescue workers trapped inside tunnels at sites of power generation plants and dams under construction, while excavation, clearing, and debris-blasting operations continue non-stop, with the help of teams from China, India, and South Korea.
​With the exception of the two survivors rescued on Friday, rescue teams have recovered only a limited number of bodies.
​According to the latest provisional toll, the wall of water, ice, and debris that swept through several valleys in the region on the border between Nepal and China resulted in the deaths of at least 1,325 people—1,294 in Nepal and 31 in China—and the disappearance of nearly 5,600 people, including about 800 foreigners.
​The Nepali Emergency Authority reported that more than 900 employees and workers at hydroelectric power sites, both operational and under construction, remain missing.
​AFP
​Source: Rum News Agency