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Related rope and machinery scenes are not independent corroboration."},{"attachment_index":6,"source_url":"https://chilime.com.np/media/Noticeboard/Informations_to_all_20830524.pdf","post_url":"https://chilime.com.np/en/notice-board/186/","media_type":"image","description":"Pickup carrying a large cable reel outside a compound gate","capture_time_basis":"Individual capture date, time and precise location unknown; publication is not capture time.","disposition":"timeline_only_unresolved_location","reason":"Timeline-only source context. Individual capture time, exact location, tunnel branch, chainage, station component and camera position remain unresolved. Publication is not capture time. No new map pin, measured advance, employee contact or rescue outcome is established. 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Exact post publication clock unresolved; 18:30 is a status bound. Attachment viewers displayed 4h around 10 September 00:04–00:08 NPT; their approximate publication window is stored separately and is not an exact parent-post clock.","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T00:14:46+05:45","retrieved_at_basis":"Sources and attachments inspected during the 9–10 September NPT scan; saved evidence reviewed at this update time.","supports":"By the Army’s 18:30 status, the joint team including foreign participants had entered to 140 m and search work was continuing. The joint team searched 40 m using an AVATA drone and found nothing in that described drone search; its starting point is unstated. Heavy-equipment approach construction continued, with 50 m remaining to a rocky section requiring 25 m of blasting/removal; these are surface-access figures.","does_not_establish":"140 m is reported entry/search reach, not metres newly dug or surveyed chainage. Do not subtract the earlier 115 m to claim 25 m newly excavated, or add the drone’s 40 m to claim 180 m. Branch, measurement origin and individual observation clocks remain unresolved; 170 m is not confirmed. The negative finding applies only to the described drone search. The 50 m and 25 m concern surface access, not remaining tunnel distance. 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Videos were reviewed through representative stills only."},{"attachment_index":2,"source_url":"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1402462022066273&set=pcb.1402463778732764","post_url":"https://www.facebook.com/NepaliArmyHQ/posts/pfbid0PeRtpNorL3yZ68yQ91bDZGdZ2Scj3XtmT95ZQKKB2vdfBaBdgZTPUNrujRNLhqEAl","media_type":"image","description":"Several yellow excavators in a broad rubble excavation","capture_time_basis":"Individual capture date and time unknown; multi-site publication is not capture time.","disposition":"held_pending_station_attribution","reason":"No individual Chilime attribution. Bridge work is excluded; other attachments are held. Similar rock or equipment scenes alone do not establish station identity, powerhouse entry or tunnel deployment. 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Videos were reviewed through representative stills only."},{"attachment_index":7,"source_url":"https://www.facebook.com/100069074654856/videos/pcb.1402463778732764/1053372350800686","post_url":"https://www.facebook.com/NepaliArmyHQ/posts/pfbid0PeRtpNorL3yZ68yQ91bDZGdZ2Scj3XtmT95ZQKKB2vdfBaBdgZTPUNrujRNLhqEAl","media_type":"video","description":"Reviewed still is very dark with indistinct people and interior detail","capture_time_basis":"Individual capture date and time unknown; multi-site publication is not capture time.","disposition":"held_pending_station_attribution","reason":"No individual Chilime attribution. Bridge work is excluded; other attachments are held. Similar rock or equipment scenes alone do not establish station identity, powerhouse entry or tunnel deployment. 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Cannot establish deployment of a specific drilling machine at Chilime; no gallery import or map pin."}],"provenance":"Named on-record newsroom account; no independent original Neupane statement is asserted."},{"type":"article","id":"src-bizpati-bista-100m-clearance-2026-09-10","short_label":"Bizpati","label":"Station chief reports about 100 m cleared · 10 September","title":"Station chief reports about 100 m cleared · 10 September","publisher":"Bizpati","brand":{"name":"Bizpati","mark":"BP","color":"#1976a3"},"authority":"newsroom report quoting named Chilime station chief Manish Bista","url":"https://bizpati.com/2026/09/218397/","published_at":"2026-09-10","published_at_basis":"Visible Thursday 2083 Bhadra 25 (10 September 2026), displayed clock ७:२० (7:20) without an AM/PM designation. No explicit publication timestamp found in retrieved HTML. 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Employee location, number and survival are not independently confirmed; the evening expectation does not establish contact or a rescue deadline. The photograph has no capture date or precise location.","provenance":"Named on-record station-chief account reported by Bizpati; no separate primary statement inspected and no independent corroboration asserted.","media_review":[{"attachment_index":1,"source_url":"https://bizpati.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/rasuwa-1.jpg","post_url":"https://bizpati.com/2026/09/218397/","media_type":"image","description":"Four helmeted personnel with ropes and lights in a dark wet rock tunnel","capture_time_basis":"No individual capture date, time, photographer or precise-location caption exposed. A dated article does not date the photograph.","disposition":"timeline_only_unresolved_location","reason":"Timeline-only undated article context. Capture time, photographer, individual identity, exact location, station component, tunnel branch, chainage and camera position remain unresolved. Article publication is not capture time; this photograph does not document a measured advance or prove the reported machinery deployment. No map placement.","archive_url":"./references/external/chilime-bizpati-bista-context-2026-09-10.jpg","file_metadata":{"name":"chilime-bizpati-bista-context-2026-09-10.jpg","asset_url":"https://bizpati.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/rasuwa-1.jpg","size":730274,"sha256":"2794990098631f5afe9a2cee55869c16a985f405d09bc7fd5e4b9e1e61440d31","width":1200,"height":800,"capture_metadata":{}},"duplicate_review":"Compared visually against all 69 previously recorded media items; no identical photograph found. Newly catalogued context, not claimed as newly captured evidence.","extraction_basis":"Original public JPEG attachment archived byte-for-byte; thumbnail resized mechanically without enhancement."}]},{"type":"article","id":"src-britant-neupane-access-revision-2026-09-10","short_label":"Britant News","label":"Neupane reports extra excavators and a remaining road gap · 10 September","title":"Neupane reports extra excavators and a remaining road gap · 10 September","publisher":"Britant News","brand":{"name":"Britant News","mark":"BN","color":"#b02028"},"authority":"newsroom reproduction of named onsite MP and engineer Shree Ram Neupane’s field account","url":"https://britantnews.com/2026/09/10/52007/engineer-neupane-claims-that-six-people-may-be-alive-inside-the-chilime-tunnel/","published_at":"2026-09-10T08:01:21+05:45","published_at_basis":"Visible 2083 Bhadra 25, 08:01 NPT. Original article:published_time and JSON-LD datePublished both give 2026-09-10T02:16:21+00:00, equivalent to 08:01:21 NPT. The article calls the account Thursday morning; individual operation clocks are unstated.","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T13:55:49+05:45","retrieved_at_basis":"Original article, publication metadata where available, and lead attachment inspected during the 10 September afternoon NPT scan; original article HTML archived in the scan evidence folder.","supports":"Britant reproduces Shree Ram Neupane’s Thursday-morning account that the 9 September plan to reach the tunnel mouth and run excavator/wheel-loader sludge removal overnight did not happen: power-connection delay, landslide, mud and blasting-related work prevented the road from reaching the mouth. Neupane reports two additional excavators at the site on 10 September and an approach road about 40 m short of the tunnel mouth. 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Broad relative-age window; source report date comes from the original 12 September status heading, not an exact publication clock."}},{"id":"src-army-mechanized-clearance-2026-09-13","short_label":"Army · clearance","label":"Army reports approximately 85 m clearance · 13 September","title":"Army reports approximately 85 m clearance · 13 September","publisher":"Nepali Army","brand":{"name":"Nepali Army","mark":"NA","color":"#61768c"},"type":"official","authority":"primary public Army operational bulletin","url":"https://www.facebook.com/NepaliArmyHQ/posts/pfbid02WtZbcEDHNUhx9YJk85VKg1csAH54zHvKnEAdNCG7DvXfkq5Qxtw66gBptAAcGEsel","published_at":"2026-09-13","published_at_basis":"Original Nepali heading gives 2083 Bhadra 28, 18:30 as status time, not publication time. Exact publication clock unresolved; stored date-only. 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Cable-crossing descriptions may concern different stages or scopes; no exact completion sequence is inferred from them.","provenance":"Original issuer; repetitions share this origin.","media_review":[{"attachment_index":1,"source_url":"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1405915588387583&set=pcb.1405916118387530","post_url":"https://www.facebook.com/NepaliArmyHQ/posts/pfbid02WtZbcEDHNUhx9YJk85VKg1csAH54zHvKnEAdNCG7DvXfkq5Qxtw66gBptAAcGEsel","media_type":"image","description":"Protective-suited and uniformed people beside water on a flat floodplain, with an elephant behind","capture_time_basis":"Individual capture time not provided. Photo/video publication age does not establish capture time.","disposition":"held_pending_station_attribution","reason":"Reviewed in the original public viewer. Multi-project bulletin without an individual Chilime caption; similar subjects alone are not sufficient attribution. 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The 15 September Kathmandupati report repeats this origin and is not independent corroboration."},{"id":"src-official-2026-09-15","short_label":"CHCL","label":"CHCL · inspection reach about 145 m · 15 September","title":"CHCL · inspection reach about 145 m · 15 September","publisher":"Chilime Hydropower Company Limited","brand":{"name":"Chilime Hydropower Company Limited","mark":"CHCL","color":"#61768c"},"type":"official","authority":"primary station-owner operational bulletin","url":"https://chilime.com.np/en/notice-board/192/","published_at":"2026-09-15","published_at_basis":"Printed 2083/05/30 agrees with the live owner index date of 15 September 2026. Publication and individual operation clocks are not given.","retrieved_at":"2026-09-16T02:04:18+05:45","supports":"CHCL relays onsite rescuers’ report that they advanced to approximately 145 m inside the tunnel and inspected conditions. Pumping continues. 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Interview and operation clocks are unstated.","retrieved_at":"2026-09-16T02:04:18+05:45","supports":"In an ANI interview, Sagar Dhakal distinguishes machinery reaching roughly 100 m-plus from personnel reaching 150 m-plus inside the Chilime tunnel. The interview report describes water obstructing a narrow passage and a mini-pump being sought. It reports no communication with the six people believed trapped as of the interview.","does_not_establish":"Named on-record account, not independent measurement. The article’s 150 m cleared introduction is not adopted: Dhakal separates machinery and personnel reach. Its roughly 220 m tunnel and 50 m-plus remaining figures have unresolved references and are not used to locate workers. 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