At 9.15am — two minutes after Maharjan’s wife, Hira Shova Maharjan, had tried and failed to reach him — officials gave the final order to 3A: “Evacuate!”
Sah, who worked in the power house’s control room, sped from floor to floor, warning colleagues individually, he later told rescuers.
Outside the tunnels, evacuating workers tried to run away from the flood, but were not fast enough. Officials pointed to footage showing a group of roughly 30 workers swept away by a wave many times their height.
Rescuers later identified an escape ladder which, had workers known of it, could have saved as many as two-thirds of those inside, said Dahal.
But they…
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