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Nepal Rescuers Race to Save Tunnel Survivors · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: In Nepal, rescue teams are engaged in a desperate race
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  Speaker 1: against time as they attempt to reach survivors still trapped
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  Speaker 1: in tunnels a full week after a catastrophic glacier collapse
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  Speaker 1: unleashed floods and landslides across the Himalayan region. Officials say
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  Speaker 1: hundreds remain missing, with many feared to be sealed inside
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  Speaker 1: blocked hydropower and road tunnels in districts including Razawa, Nuukot,
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  Speaker 1: and Dating. The disaster has already claimed nearly 800 lives,
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  Speaker 1: while more than 1,500 people remain unaccounted for. Rescue commanders
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  Speaker 1: report faint signals from inside some tunnels, where survivors have
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  Speaker 1: tried to communicate by banging on walls or sending weak
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  Speaker 1: radio transmissions. Oxygen levels are dropping in several chambers, and
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  Speaker 1: food and water supplies are critically low. Heavy machinery and
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  Speaker 1: Sniffer dogs and specialized drilling equipment have been deployed to
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  Speaker 1: clear debris, but progress is slow. Continuous rainfall and unstable
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  Speaker 1: terrain have complicated operations, with landslides threatening rescuers as they work.
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  Speaker 1: Helicopters have been used to ferry equipment into remote valleys,
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  Speaker 1: while engineers attempt to bore narrow shafts to deliver supplies.
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  Speaker 1: International cooperation has intensified. China has dispatched emergency units across
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  Speaker 1: the border in Tibet, sharing early warning data on glacial
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  Speaker 1: lakes that remain unstable. India has set up emergency control
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  Speaker 1: rooms in Delhi to assist its citizens, while aid groups
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  Speaker 1: warn that relief camps in Nepal are overcrowded and short
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  Speaker 1: on medicine, food, and clean water. Survivors describe harrowing conditions.
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  Speaker 1: Some families have waited outside police stations and hospitals for days.
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  Speaker 1: clutching photographs of missing relatives. Doctors caution that disease outbreaks
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  Speaker 1: are likely if aid does not arrive quickly. The Nepal
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  Speaker 1: Tourism Board has activated its tourist police hotline to assist
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  Speaker 1: foreign nationals, hundreds of whom are still missing. The tunnel
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  Speaker 1: rescues highlight the scale of the disaster's impact on infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: Hydropower projects, vital to Nepal's economy, have been crippled while
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  Speaker 1: roads linking remote villages remain impassable. Engineers warn that rebuilding
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  Speaker 1: will take months, if not years, requiring billions in international aid.
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  Speaker 1: Scientists say the tragedy underscores the growing risks of climate-driven
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  Speaker 1: glacial floods. Rising temperatures are destabilizing Himalayan terrain, making collapses
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  Speaker 1: more frequent and more deadly. For Nepal, The challenge is
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  Speaker 1: both immediate and long-term, saving lives trapped underground while preparing
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  Speaker 1: for future disasters in one of the harshest landscapes on Earth.
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  Speaker 1: As rescuers push deeper into the tunnels, each chamber cleared
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  Speaker 1: offers hope. But with hundreds still inside, Nepal faces a
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  Speaker 1: race against time, a struggle that has become a symbol
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  Speaker 1: of resilience and of the human toll exacted by climate-driven catastrophe.