Two trapped workers are pulled alive from Nepal tunnel more than a week after deadly floods

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 missing.

POKHARA, Nepal — Two workers in Nepal were pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel Friday, nine days after devastating floods swept the Himalayan region and left thousands of people dead or missing.

In a rare glimmer of hope, emergency teams rescued two men — 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. A body was also recovered, Nepal’s army said.

Two Nepal flood survivors rescued from hydropower tunnel

Rescue 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.

Nepal’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.