Nepal flood: Survivor recounts escape from hydropower tunnel; hundreds still missing

Dhan Bahadur Tamang was at work in a hydropower project near Nepal's border with China when he sensed a sudden air pressure change in the underground tunnel at the Upper Trishuli 1 hydropower project.Under the industrial floodlights, dust started to rise, the 32-year-old recalled, "Something was coming."Nobody in the tunnel was prepared for what was about to hit them: a flood wave that had by then already flattened entire settlements upstream on the Trishuli river and was rolling down the valley...

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