By Saurabh Sharma, Sarita Chaganti Singh and Sahana BajracharyaNUWAKOT/KATHMANDU/UPPER TRISHULI 3A HYDROPOWER STATION, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A delirious Kabir Maharjan drifted in and out of consciousness in a pool of muddy water in complete darkness, trapped for nine days in a tunnel beneath the wreckage of Nepal's worst flood disaster in decades.When he finally awoke at a hospital after a miracle rescue, he did not recognise his wife. Confused, he asked her why she had not given him a bed sooner.

A rescue team rescued the Chinese national from 225 metres inside the tunnel of a hydropower project, a military statement said.

The rescue brings the total to three workers saved from a hydropower tunnel, after two other workers were freed a day before.