KATHMANDU: A rescue team has intensified the search for people missing at the Rasuwagadhi Hydroelectric Project site following the devastating flash flood in the Bhotekoshi River in Rasuwa on August 26.
Ninety-three people working at the 111-megawatt hydropower project remain unaccounted for following the disaster.
A technical and expert team is conducting reconnaissance of the project site from a Nepal Army helicopter, according to the private secretariat of Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Biraj Bhakta Shrestha.
According to the Independent Power Producers’ Association Nepal (IPPAN), 93 people have gone missing at the Rasuwagadhi Hydropower Project.
IPPAN said 49 employees of Rasuwagadhi Hydropower Company are among the missing, along with two daily-wage workers. Of those involved in construction work, 35 workers from Sherpa Hydro Construction are missing, while four workers from CWE and three from Bhanas Construction are also unaccounted for.
Six people had been trapped in an underground descender at the project site. Four of them managed to escape on their own after two days and were subsequently rescued by a military helicopter.
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