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Melamchi tunnel bursts, two staffers swept away along with vehicle

Kathmandu, 15 July :  An engineer and a driver working for Melamchi Drinking Water Project (MDWP) have gone missing after the gate of the audit tunnel at Aambathan gave in to the pressure of water inside the tunnel Tuesday afternoon, sweeping away the duo along with the vehicle.

Engineer Satish Goit of Dhanusha district representing the contracting company Sinohydro and driver Radha Krishna Thapa of Godavari in Lalitpur employed by MDWP have gone missing. Two other — Engineer Shekhar Khanal of the project and consultant Pemba Lama, a resident of Melamchi — were also in the vehicle when water gushed out of the tunnel, according to media reports.

People’s News Monitoring Service

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