Light at the end of the tunnel at last!


Tunnel vision: An ambulance waiting to carry workers from the site of the tunnel that collapsed in Silkyara in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. — AP

Rescuers broke through rocks and debris to reach 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas for 17 days.

The process of pulling out the 41 labourers, one at a time on wheeled stretchers through a narrow pipe 90cm wide, was due to begin soon, officials said.

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