I chanted mantras to give me hope, says tunnel survivor

A hydropower worker who was trapped for nine days in a tunnel says he urged his colleagues to run away but ran out of time to make his own escape. The mechanical foreman, Sanjay Sah, says: "It was not right for me to run away... My responsibility was to save others." Sah says he chanted mantras while trapped in the darkness underground and managed to stay in contact with three or four other workers somewhere in the tunnel. Sah was rescued with fellow survivor Kabir Maharjan, a mechanic