A Nepali worker walked out of a flooded Chinese-supervised tunnel and said the supervisor stopped them from fleeing — then ran first.
“I asked him to let us out. He said ‘I’ll go and see.’ Then he fled.”
~265 inside that tunnel, he claims. Cries of “Help, help.” Bodies in the dark.
That is a first-person account from a disaster site.
While families wait at tunnel mouths in Rasuwa and Nuwakot, the feed fills with propaganda of rescuers getting overworked in China.
One is mud, missing men, and a supervisor who left.
The other is a narrative product.
Guess which one is easier to manufacture.