{"id":86001,"date":"2026-08-31T08:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86001"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:15:54","slug":"rescuers-race-to-save-trapped-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/rescuers-race-to-save-trapped-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers Race To Save Trapped Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rescuers rushed Monday to reach workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites buried in mud after\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nepal\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">catastrophic flooding in Nepal<\/a><\/span> and China, as the death toll continued to rise and increasingly desperate families search for their loved ones.\u00a0The combined deaths in Nepal and China surpassed 900, with more than 4,700 people missing, and a private-sector association representing power companies said at least 900 workers have been unaccounted for from 12 hydropower projects damaged by the floods in Nepal\u2019s Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts.<\/p>\n<p>Mohan Kumar Dangi, president of the Independent Power Producers\u2019 Association, Nepal, or IPPAN, said there\u2019s an estimation of at least 500 of the 900 missing workers trapped in the tunnels, although authorities have provided varying numbers and said several foreign teams were assisting Nepali rescuers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Rescuers rushed Monday to reach workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites buried in mud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1810],"class_list":{"0":"post-86001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-https-apnews-com-article-nepal-tibet-china-flash-floods-744fe6e15ae7751e15efcd6dff70170c","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86002,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86001\/revisions\/86002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}