# “So dark inside the tunnel”: Man reflects on surviving 9 days trapped amid Nepal floods

https://mins.news/en/video/79360

- Global News, 2026-09-29 21:36 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o-Tlf3ogMY

> Kabir Maharjan says he and mechanic foreman Sanjay Sah spent nine days trapped in a hydropower tunnel after catastrophic floods swept Nepal following a glacial collapse. Rescued by the Nepali Army on Sept. 4, Maharjan recalled the tunnel’s darkness; the pair had been thought to be among more than 1,450 people buried and killed.

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