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'No hollow or empty space': A drone operator reveals challenges in Nepal's tunnel rescue efforts
Filmmaker Manish Maharjan uses thermal drones to aid rescue efforts in Nepal following devastating glacial floods that buried hydropower projects and left hundreds missing in debris-filled tunnels.
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