Rescuers Push 150 Metres Into Dark Nepal Tunnel Searching For Missing Workers

Video filmed by the Nepali Army shows a joint Nepali and Indian rescue team entering the Langtang hydropower tunnel after the August 26 Bhote Koshi flash flood.

A soldier in camouflage walks into the tunnel, cut into a steep slope of mud and rock. Inside, water drips from the ceiling as a rescuer in a blue helmet moves over wet boulders. Headlamps illuminate rescuers crouching among debris, including one in a blue helmet and mask and another in a white helmet with a red scarf.

Soldiers wearing red-cross armbands work over a person on the tunnel floor. Outside, two men in camouflage, including one wearing a green turban and orange vest, use a jackhammer on rock beside the entrance.

The original caption states that the joint team entered about 150 metres into the Langtang hydropower tunnel to conduct a search.

After the flood, the joint Nepali Army and Indian tunnel-rescue team entered the tunnel in Rasuwa. The Army said the team reached about 150 metres inside while searching for missing workers, while Indian officials separately reported that the same team had probed as far as 185 metres.

Search work at Langtang continued into early September 2026 as hundreds of hydropower workers across Rasuwa remained unaccounted for.