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4 September 2026

Nepal: Two pulled alive from tunnel nine days after floods

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Nepal: Two pulled alive from tunnel nine days after floods

Crews are racing to find hundreds more people still believed to be trapped after a glacier collapse triggered floods that killed more than 1,200 people.

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