Nepal's engineers mobilize on WhatsApp to guide tunnel rescue after devastating flash flood
A week into rescue operations at destroyed hydropower plants, informal coordination between expert volunteers via WhatsApp is helping searchers locate potential survivors in flooded tunnels—showing how distributed expertise can address gaps in official emergency response.
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