NEW DELHI: Rescue workers are hunting for 933 missing hydropower workers, among the thousands of people missing in Nepal.
Many are believed to be trapped inside the Trishuli-3A hydropower site in Rasuwa district, as well as sites in Chilime.
Rescuers managed to create a hole wide enough to enter and begin the search for survivors at Trishuli-3A yesterday, though the office of Prime Minister Balendra Shah said that the team working into the tunnel called out but did not receive a response from inside.
International tunnel rescue teams, including from India and China, are aiding Nepali police, army personnel and search and rescue workers.
However, some delays with the rescue operations have frustrated the loved ones of those missing.
As China faces censorship questions, Nepal is also ordering the removal of online flood content that it deems to be misinformation.
Press Council Nepal – a media regulatory body set up by Nepal’s government – has opened a dedicated portal where the public can report false information and graphic material related to the disaster.
Dozens of online users have subsequently been ordered to remove inappropriate content, the Kathmandu Post reports – including AI-generated footage and clips showing bodies and injuries.
Press Council chairman Umesh Shrestha tells the newspaper that mainstream media organisations have largely avoided sharing such material: “This is a positive takeaway.”
The headteacher of a Nepali school destroyed by floods says he has “lost everything”, but is proud to have saved the lives of around 900 students.
We heard yesterday from Rajendra Dawadi, who leads Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in Nuwakot, who evacuated his pupils after receiving four warnings from different people within minutes.
Today, he tells BBC Newsday that once they reached higher ground, “within two, five minutes… I looked back to the school. At that time, the school is totally swept away, swallowed, nothing is left”.
Dawadi says the students and staff were evacuated by helicopter three to four days later.
“We saved the people’s lives that we feel proud on that moment. But we lost everything. We lost our colleagues. We lost our school building.”
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