These men had a hellish escape from Nepal's flooded hydro tunnels. They were the lucky ones
General News,Natural Disasters,Nepal,Asia
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As water, concrete and debris stormed through the darkness, almost sweeping him off his feet, Ram Chandra tightly gripped onto one of the rungs studded into the roof of the tunnel he was working in on the banks of Nepal's Trishuli river.
His quick reaction likely saved his life.
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