A week after the deadly floods in Nepal, rescuers work to find survivors

A view of damaged tunnel of the Trishuli Hydropower Plant on the banks of the swollen Trishuli River following landslides on August 30, 2026, in Trishuli, Nepal. Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images KATHMANDU, Nepal — A week after powerful flash floods devastated riverside communities in Tibet and Nepal and killed more than 1,000 people, rescuers are still racing to locate survivors who may be trapped inside around a dozen hydro-power plants buried under the mud. But to rescue them, one man overseeing part of a rescue says, first, they have to find the tunnels where the men and women are believed to have fled. Just finding the tunnels is an achievement, amid a post-flood landscape that tunneling expert Arnold Dix described as "like a bomb's gone off." The effort to locate the trapped workers was just one part of a sprawling, complex rescue and humanitarian operation that some 21,000 Nepali security forces and rescuers have been undertaking since floods left some 4,000 people missing, according to a Wednesday briefing by the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lok Bahadur Poudel Chhetri. Nepal's army is leading rescue effort...