Two Workers Pulled Alive From Trishuli-3 as Himalayan Floods Leave Thousands Missing

Overview

• A glacier and mountainside collapse on Aug. 26 sent a wall of water, ice and debris across valleys on the Nepal–Tibet border and buried villages, roads and hydroelectric works.
• Official tallies place the death toll at about 1,280 with more than 5,600 people still reported missing, including about 900 hydroelectric workers and hundreds of foreigners.
• Rescuers on Sept. 4 extracted two men, Sanjay Shah and Kabir Maharjan, alive from the Trishuli-3 tunnel after days of slow digging and a first faint contact reported by specialists.
• Nepalese teams are carrying out technically difficult, high‑risk excavations in multiple buried tunnels with equipment and experts sent from India, China and South Korea while helicopters, drones and porters handle access to remote sites.
• Nearly 85,000 people have been displaced and families face urgent needs and ongoing DNA identification work for recovered bodies, and the damage to dams and power projects will complicate recovery and local livelihoods for months.