KATHMANDU: Sanjay Sah and Kabir Maharjan, who were trapped inside the Trishuli-3 ‘A’ tunnel in Rasuwa, have been rescued and brought to Kathmandu for treatment.
On the 10th day of the flood in the Bhotekoshi River, early morning on Friday (September 4), a joint rescue team of the Nepali Army and Armed Police Force safely rescued the two men from the tunnel.
The Nepali Army said the two people trapped inside the tunnel were rescued alive and airlifted to Kathmandu by helicopter. They have begun receiving treatment at the Military Hospital in Chhauni.
Sah is the project’s mechanical foreman, while Maharjan is the mechanical supervisor. The Nepali Army said the rescue team has so far rescued two people alive and that search and rescue operations are continuing inside the tunnel.
Meanwhile, mechanical engineer Sanjay Sah, one of those rescued, said that all the other people inside the tunnel are safe.
According to the Nepal Electricity Authority, immediately after being rescued, Sah told the rescue workers that everyone who had been trapped inside the tunnel with him was safe and waiting to be rescued.
The rescue team has also rescued another person, Kabir Maharjan, alive from the tunnel. A Nepali Army medical team deployed at the site examined Sah and Maharjan and said their health condition was normal.
Rescue operations are continuing to evacuate those still trapped inside the tunnel. Sah’s account that everyone inside is safe has raised hopes that the remaining people will also be rescued safely.
The rescue teams are intensifying their efforts to bring everyone still inside the tunnel to safety.
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