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Rescuers dig four bodies from Nepal hydropower tunnel as missing toll rises to 6,150

From the Newshound archive · first published 19 September 2026.

The Langtang Lirung collapse sent 110 million cubic metres of rock and ice plunging 1,400 metres, killing around 1,400 people, with 6,150 still missing.
The Langtang Lirung collapse sent 110 million cubic metres of rock and ice plunging 1,400 metres, killing around 1,400 people, with 6,150 still missing.

Nepal's army recovered four bodies from the Chilime Hydropower plant tunnel on Wednesday, three weeks after a catastrophic rock-ice avalanche on Langtang Lirung mountain unleashed floods that have now left 6,150 people unaccounted for — a figure authorities revised sharply upward this week. A World Weather Attribution study published Thursday found climate change was a "destabilising factor" behind the disaster, with July-August temperatures running 1.5C above normal and glaciers thinning by half a metre a year. More than 20 international scientists described it as a "compound crisis" caused by rising temperatures, thawing permafrost and pre-existing geological fractures.

Five more bodies were located in a separate location on Wednesday, with equipment being sent to recover them, bringing total confirmed dead to 1,403.

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