{"id":754013,"date":"2026-08-29T23:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754013\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:34:17","slug":"nepal-floods-latest-rescue-efforts-enter-fifth-day-with-more-than-2400-missing-after-flash-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754013\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal floods latest: Rescue efforts enter fifth day with more than 2,400 missing after flash flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers battle adverse weather in effort to reach workers trapped in hydroelectric tunnelspublished at 22:44 BST<\/p>\n<p>22:44 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Workers in high vis and helmets use a large drill into a hard surface. They are in a valley where the ground is thick with mud and clouds hang in the air\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3cfdbc7e-5d2d-4712-bc79-ae64a81cac04.png.webp\"  width=\"1334\" height=\"884\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Nepalese governmentImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An image shared by the Nepalese energy minister earlier on Saturday in a post providing updates on the rescue mission at the Trishuli-3 &#8216;A&#8217; hydropower site<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Throughout Saturday, Nepalese energy minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha provided updates on rescue efforts at hydroelectric facilities in the flood-hit area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the Trishuli-3 &#8216;A&#8217; hydropower site rescuers have managed to drill a hole into one of the facility&#8217;s cable tunnels. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says an initial inspection reveals no debris inside, but no communication has been established with anyone inside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hope is that rescuers will be able to make a hole big enough for a person to enter, which may allow rescuers to access the site&#8217;s main tunnel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his most recent update, he says rescuers would try and work through the night, but that there is a risk their efforts could be impacted and even suspended &#8220;for some time as water flow is increasing due to continuous rain&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier in the day, he said rescue efforts were also continuing at another hydroelectic facility, Trishuli-3 &#8216;B&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Specialist teams from China and India have joined Nepalese rescuers for search and rescue efforts linked to a number of hydroelectric sites in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers battle adverse weather in effort to reach workers trapped in hydroelectric tunnelspublished at 22:44 BST 22:44 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-754013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}