The Age · World / Asia

‘I saw many dead bodies’: The harrowing escape from a flooded Nepal tunnel

· By Zach Hope, Bishal Karki
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Bidur, Nepal: Dhan Bahadur Tamang arrived at work at 7.20am on Wednesday, stretched with his team, then headed down the tunnels for another day of building a hydropower plant designed to increase blackout-prone Nepal’s power generation by at least 20 per cent.

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