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Rescuers are rappelling with ropes into hydropower tunnels through drilled holes Rescue teams began rappelling into a tunnel at a hydropower plant in Nepal late Sunday, as part of an urgent mission to search for survivors who might be trapped inside several days after the devastating flash flood. A roughly two-feet-wide hole has been drilled through the heavily fortified exterior of the tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-3A hydropower project, officials said, adding that rescue teams were hoping to get inside to identify where in the kilometers-long tunnel the workers might be. They “descended through the opening using ropes and called out to those trapped inside, but received no response,” the prime minister’s office said on Sunday. Video showed the workers rappelling downward into the dark cavern, wearing harnesses and helmets.

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