Rescuers in India on Tuesday reached 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks in the country’s north and started pulling them out, a local news agency reported. One worker has been rescued so far, the report by the Press Trust of India said. The laborers are being pulled out through a passageway made of welded pipes which rescuers previously pushed through dirt and rocks. The rescue mission has grabbed the country’s attention for the past 17 days. The workers got trapped on Nov. 12, when a landslide caused a portion of the 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) tunnel they were building in Uttarakhand state to collapse about 200 meters (650 feet) from the entrance. They survived on food and oxygen supplied through narrow steel pipes. After being pulled out, they will be taken to a makeshift health center inside the 13-meter (42.6 feet) wide tunnel, officials said
Rescuers in India have reached 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks. One worker has been rescued so far. The workers are being pulled out through a passageway made of welded pipes.
They will be taken to a makeshift health center inside the tunnel.
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