Rescue work continued in Nepal for a 14th day after the glacial and mountain collapse near the China-Nepal border swept away roads, bridges and homes.
Nepali rescuers are focusing on three hydropower projects where they believe workers could still be trapped, the disaster agency said.
Hundreds of hydropower workers are among the missing, but the rescue of three from deep inside tunnels – two Nepalis on Friday and a Chinese man on Saturday – has raised hopes that others could still be alive.
“Our search and rescue operation is ongoing,” Dharam Raj Uprety, chief of the country’s disaster authority, told AFP.
“We are hoping that there might still be survivors in at least three projects, and we are pushing our operations there.”
Foreign experts, including from China, India and South Korea, are aiding Nepali teams.
Nepal’s foreign ministry said it had not given up hope of finding survivors.
“Hopes of finding survivors remain, and the reported number of people missing inside the tunnels remains unverified,” the ministry said in a statement.
