{"id":92878,"date":"2026-09-01T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/nepal-death-toll-crosses-1000-as-rescuers-find-workers-trapped-in-mud-filled-tunnels-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:44:00","slug":"nepal-death-toll-crosses-1000-as-rescuers-find-workers-trapped-in-mud-filled-tunnels-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/nepal-death-toll-crosses-1000-as-rescuers-find-workers-trapped-in-mud-filled-tunnels-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal death toll crosses 1,000 as rescuers find workers trapped in mud-filled tunnels | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in Nepal from devastating floods on the border with Tibet has crossed 1,000, according to the country&#8217;s <!--more--> disaster agency.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,900 people remain missing &#8211; of whom more than 600 are workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of mud-filled tunnels at hydropower sites along Trishuli River.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers have been pumping air into the tunnels &#8211; and while a team did manage to gain entry to one of them, it withdrew after finding no-one there.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue operation is being spearheaded by an international team made up of Chinese and Nepalese military personnel, while experts from India, Korea and Australia are also involved.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Nepal #Tibet #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in Nepal from devastating floods on the border with Tibet has crossed 1,000, according to the country&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}