Video shot by search crews on Saturday (August 29), showed the entrance of a tunnel inside a hydropower project blocked by the devastating floods, as rescuers prepared to enter in search of hundreds believed trapped.

Reuters was able to match the building layout, mountain terrain with topography imagery of the area. Nepal National Mountain Guide Association have said they are conducting rescue operations at the tunnel.

Nepal's rescue teams, helped by Chinese and Indian experts, worked to reach hundreds of people believed to be stuck inside blocked hydropower project tunnels in the aftermath of last week's Himalayan flood that carved a trail of destruction in the country's valley towns and villages as well as across the border in China.

The unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud and debris on the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday (August 26) – blamed on a glacier collapse – killed more than 900 people and nearly 5,000 are still missing.

Hundreds of bodies, many unidentified, have been buried in shallow graves as they began decomposing in the humid weather in the plains of the Himalayan country after being swept down the mountains by the torrent.

Nepali officials said that the focus was on reaching the hundreds of workers believed to be trapped inside about half a dozen hydropower project tunnels that had been blocked by mud and rock debris.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

1. MOUNTAINS, WATER FLOWING

RASUWA, NEPAL (AUGUST 29, 2026) (ASHISH GURUNG - No resales / No archive / Must on-screen courtesy Ashish Gurung) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT)

2. RESCUE CREWS PREPARING ROPES AT ENTRANCE OF TUNNEL

3. CREW MEMBER WALKING IN MUD AT ENTRANCE OF TUNNEL / FELLOW CREW MEMBERS STANDING NEAR EQUIPMENT

4. CREW MEMBER ENTERING TUNNEL / CALLING OUT FOR SURVIVORS / TUNNEL PARTIALLY BLOCKED BY MUD

5. VARIOUS OF BLOCKED TUNNEL