Overview
- Rescue teams are actively trying to reach roughly 933 workers reported missing across about six hydropower construction sites, with authorities saying about 350 may be trapped at Upper Trishuli 1 and about 40 at Upper Trishuli 3A.
- Operations have focused on digging into sealed tunnel mouths and clearing mud and debris, and teams have used controlled blasts and excavators to open new access points to flooded galleries.
- Continued rainfall and rising river levels have repeatedly flooded access routes and slowed tunnel rescues, forcing the Nepal Army and specialists to work in short windows of safer conditions.
- The floods have killed around 900 people and left thousands missing while rescuers have pulled more than 10,000 people to safety, and several damaged plants have knocked about 10% off Nepal’s electricity production capacity.
- International aid is arriving with Malaysia pledging $1 million and a specialist rescue team and China sending emergency supplies and experts to support search-and-rescue and relief efforts.