Nepal's disaster management agency said that at least 1,300 people were killed in the floods that began on 2026-08-26 and that more than 5,000 people remain missing. ^[1] Authorities said about 900 workers are missing from 12 hydropower projects across Nepal, with roughly 500 believed to be trapped in various tunnels. ^[2] Nepal's army said a joint rescue team of Nepalese military personnel and South Korean disaster experts rescued a Chinese national from a 225-meter tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project after he was trapped for 10 days. ^[3] In a social media post on 2026-09-05, the office of Nepal's prime minister said that rescuers had pulled a Chinese national alive from a hydropower tunnel. ^[4] Two Nepalese workers were pulled alive from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower plant in Nepal on 2026-09-04, and the rescue of the Chinese man the next day brought the total of workers pulled alive from the Trishuli hydropower project to three. ^[5]