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Nepali rescuers encountered challenging conditions on Sunday as search operations after catastrophic floods entered a 12th day, lifted by the extraordinary rescue of 4 survivors.
Crews located two more people alive on Saturday, adding to the 2 saved the day before in what have been described as miraculous tales of survival.
Three of those have been found in hydropower tunnels, where the government had initially said more than 100 workers could be alive.
"Search and rescue is going on at the tunnels despite geography, adverse weather and lack of connectivity," Energy Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Rescue workers were experiencing "multiple challenges," he said.
The wall of icy water and debris tore through mountain districts on Aug. 26, destroying roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
Crews pulled a Chinese man alive from deep inside a hydropower tunnel on Saturday and a 64-year-old Nepali woman, Chandrika Shrestha, from her mud-covered home.
Prime Minister Balendra Shah said the latter rescue had "given hope to the entire nation."
A day earlier, two Nepali hydropower workers were rescued at the Trishuli 3A tunnel, where searches continue alongside multiple other sites, with at least 12 hydropower projects affected.
The combined toll stands at 1,384 dead and more than 5,500 missing, including around 800 foreigners, among them tourists and pilgrims.
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