Nepali rescuers clung to hopes of finding survivors trapped in hydropower tunnels on Wednesday, two weeks after deadly flooding triggered by a glacial mountain collapse.

The 26 August tsunami-like surge of water, mud and debris — which began on the China-Nepal border — has killed 1,377 people and left 5,130, including 587 foreigners, missing, according to Nepali authorities.

"The rescue and search work in the tunnels at Trishuli 3A, 3B and Chilime hydropower projects is ongoing," Nepal Army spokesman Raja Ram Basnet told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

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