Kathmandu, 21 June:Seventeen workers 11 Nepali and six Chinese trapped inside the tunnel of under-construction Rasuwagadhi Hydropower Project were rescued alive on Friday morning, some 11 hours after the incident.
According to District Administration Office Rasuwa, they were stuck inside after the dry landslide that occurred in the construction yesterday blocking the entrance of the 4.18 km-long tunnel of the project.
All the rescued laborers were brought to the construction site office of the hydropower project. A team of 38 security personnel from the Nepal Army, Armed Police Force and Nepal Police was deployed to rescue the trapped laborers.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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