{"id":759522,"date":"2026-09-04T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759522\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:48:11","slug":"nepal-flooding-two-workers-pulled-alive-from-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759522\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal flooding: Two workers pulled alive from tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘It’s like layer upon layer of miracles’: Rescue adviser tells BBC how survivors were reachedpublished at 08:29 BST<\/p>\n

08:29 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Tessa Wong
Asia Digital Reporter, in Singapore<\/p>\n

\"ArnoldImage source, EPA-EFE\/REX\/ShutterstockImage caption, <\/p>\n

Arnold Dix, pictured in 2023, has been advising the Nepalese government on rescue operations<\/p>\n

I’ve just spoken to Arnold Dix, the president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, who has been advising the Nepalese government on how to conduct the rescue.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never known a rescue operation where you had to look for an entrance of a tunnel that was previously up the hill, that was now underground,” he tells me.<\/p>\n

“You can imagine the enormity of the avalanche, it completely buried the entrance.”<\/p>\n

Using satellite data, rescuers were able to identify a spot to dig and eventually found the entrance – the next challenge was to locate survivors.<\/p>\n

“We didn\u2019t know where they were, we had to make our best guess using technology,” Dix says.<\/p>\n

Rescuers worked through a tunnel blocked entirely with mud and massive rocks – some bigger than cars – and had to resort to using explosives, “which we normally never do because of the risk of blowing people up”.<\/p>\n

“Then we found these two men. It’s like layer upon layer of
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