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Two workers rescued from Nepal hydropower tunnel nine days after flood

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Fresh hopes of finding more survivors, after two workers were rescued from a hydropower tunnel nine days after a glacial flood swept the Nepal-Tibet border. The two men were freed from the Trishuli 3A hydropower site from a depth of 170 metres. Both are in stable condition and recovering in a Kathmandu hospital. Meanwhile, the death toll from the disaster has soared past 1,300 and more than 5,000 others are still unaccounted for. Jack Board reports from Kathmandu. 

Fresh hopes of finding more survivors, after two workers were rescued from a hydropower tunnel nine days after a glacial flood swept the Nepal-Tibet border. The two men were freed from the Trishuli 3A hydropower site from a depth of 170 metres. Both are in stable condition and recovering in a Kathmandu hospital. Meanwhile, the death toll from the disaster has soared past 1,300 and more than 5,000 others are still unaccounted for. Jack Board reports from Kathmandu. 

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