EXCLUSIVE: Trapped nine days in a dark tunnel, Nepali man tells his survival story ↧ ↧ EXCLUSIVE: Trapped nine days in a dark tunnel, Nepali man tells his... When Sanjay Sah got trapped in a dark tunnel linked to a hydropower station after a devastating flood tore through the structure in Nepal, he was so scared of injuring his eyes on debris that he kept them closed for days. When ​a miracle rescue happened nine days later, he could barely open them.