Five victims recovered from flood-damaged Upper Trishuli-1 tunnel in Rasuwa
A joint Nepali Army and hydropower team retrieved five bodies from the Audit-3 tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 project, three weeks after severe floods hit Rasuwa.
In a continued rescue operation at the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower facility, a combined team of Nepali Army personnel and project workers recovered five bodies from the Audit-3 tunnel on Wednesday. Assistant chief district officer Druba Prasad Adhikari confirmed the bodies were removed and that identification procedures are underway. The tunnel, part of a 216-megawatt plant in Rasuwa district, was severely impacted by the floods that struck on August 26, which killed hundreds and left many missing across the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river corridors.
Rescue crews remain active at the site, searching for any additional victims and assessing damage to the infrastructure. The disaster has highlighted the vulnerability of Nepal's hydropower projects to extreme weather events.
Why it matters
The recovery underscores the human toll of Nepal's flood disaster and the challenges facing critical hydropower infrastructure.
How this story developed
- Aug 28 Nepalese army pulls survivors from flooded hydropower tunnel in Rasuwa
- Sep 3 Death toll rose above 1,270 and bodies recovered reached 1,252.
- Sep 3 After a deadly flash flood on the China-Nepal border, Chinese authorities have tightly controlled information, emphasizing rescue efforts over the identities of the dead and missing.
- Sep 5 A Canadian citizen missing after the floods was located safe.
- Sep 5 After more than a week of searching, a 64-year-old woman was rescued from a mud-filled house and a Chinese worker was saved from a deep tunnel, rekindling optimism amid Nepal's deadliest floods in a decade.
- Sep 5 Authorities suspended 24 passenger ferry routes and closed Fuzhou theme parks.
- Sep 6 Flash floods ripped a three‑storey building in Xianyou County and drones delivered supplies to a flooded school in Wenzhou.
- Sep 6 Officials are pursuing higher‑ground reconstruction of the school with Indian aid.
- Sep 7 Chinese authorities barred foreign journalists from entering the Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Sep 7 Chinese worker Lu Haitao was rescued from a 225‑metre hydropower tunnel and air‑lifted to a hospital.
- Sep 7 The United Nations launched a $50 million appeal to aid flood‑affected residents.
- Sep 9 Two hydropower workers were rescued after being trapped for nine days.
- Sep 14 UN assistant secretary‑general Kanni Wignaraja warned of expanding flood risk across the Himalayas.
- Sep 17 A new UN Environment Programme review labeled glacier melt an “immediate” climate risk.
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