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Two people have been rescued alive in Nepal nine days after a flash flood killed more than 1,200 people.
Sanjaya Shah and Kabir Maharjan have been airlifted directly to a hospital in Kathmandu, according to authorities.
Teams are still said to be working to rescue more people said to be trapped inside theTrishuli 3A Hydropower Plant.
Both of the workers are believed to have injuries on their hands and legs, ‘possibly’ from crawling through the tunnel, authorities have told the BBC.
At least 39 others are expected to be rescued from the tunnel after rescuers heard voices early on Friday.
More than 150 others are still feared trapped at other hydropower sites in Nepal, however.
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Dramatic footage showed the moment that the workers were pulled to safety.
Hundreds of the more than 5,000 still missing are labourers working in a vast network of tunnels at hydropower sites along the river.
Engineers have been pumping air into the hydropower tunnels as part of the huge rescue operation.
Separate rescue operations are taking place at half a dozen hydropower tunnels in which more than 150 people are feared trapped.
The two who have been rescued so far today are from the Trishuli 3A tunnel.
While Shah was not said to be in a condition to talk, Maharjan ‘smiled and was thankful’, authorities say.
Tunnelling expert Arnold Dix, president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, said that prior to the rescue teams had already dug through debris blocking the tunnel for 50-60 metres.
‘Right now, I’m ‘glass three-quarters full’,’ Dix told AFP.
‘After a week of 24/7 heartache, we might, just, be back in miracle country.’
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