Free at last! Construction workers emerge from collapsed Indian road tunnel where they have been trapped for 17 days
Rescue team pulls them all to safety through pipe built through the rubble-- Rescuers digging by hand in painstaking effort using 'rat-hole' technique
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All 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in India have been rescued after 17 gruelling days stuck underground.
The workers were seen 'in the safety tunnel inside the Silkyara tunnel' and 'will be evacuated soon in [an] ambulance', local media reported just after 3pm GMT today. -- More
A team of "rat miners" digging manually through a huge mound of debris finally reached 41 men trapped in a Himalayan highway tunnel in northern India on Tuesday after 17 days of failed attempts.
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