Nepali foreman rescued from tunnel says he stayed behind to help others

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A mechanical foreman, Sanjay Sah, who was trapped for nine days in a tunnel linked to a hydropower station in Nepal, was rescued on Friday (Sept 4), saying he had urged others to run away but ran out of time to make his own escape.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:01When the mountain gave way above the Nepali power plant where Sanjay Sa worked, he had

00:07a choice, flee or stay.

00:09He chose to stay and help.

00:42The mechanical foreman was rescued alive on Friday alongside another worker.

00:47Nine days after a massive wall of ice, rock and debris swept through the valley where

00:52the upper Trishuli 3A hydropower station is located, Sa said more people could still be

00:58trapped deeper inside the mountain.

01:21Officials believe at least 900 people are trapped in tunnels linked to six hydropower projects

01:26along the Trishuli River.

01:28Sa and fellow survivor Kabir Maharjan, a mechanical supervisor, are the first workers to be rescued

01:34alive from the hydropower projects.

01:37A small group of workers had managed to escape from another tunnel just hours after the disaster

01:42struck.

01:43At least 1,287 people were killed in Nepal after houses, streets and schools in towns and villages

01:50near the border with China's Tibet were swept away.

01:53More than 5,000 people remain missing, while thousands more have been displaced.

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