93 Workers Disappeared Inside Nepal Tunnel. Thermal Drones Found Nothing

New Delhi:

Rescuers searching a flood-hit hydropower project in Nepal reached the far end of a tunnel using thermal drones but found no survivors. At least 93 workers were feared trapped in the Rasuwagadhi Hydropower Project tunnel in Rasuwa district and now remain untraceable. 

The operation at Rasuwagadhi involved Nepali Army personnel, engineers and a drone team. The rescuers entered the tunnel after flooding in the Bhote Koshi river raised fears that workers could have been stranded at its far end. 

The team managed to reach the endpoint and used drones to search the interior, including areas that would have been difficult or dangerous to inspect directly. But there was no indication that anyone was inside.

The Prime Minister's Secretariat said on Monday that the Army-led team had returned after searching the tunnel of the 111-megawatt Rasuwagadhi project.