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Forty-one labourers, trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand for 17 days, have been rescued. The breakthrough came after rat-miners were brought in last evening and manually dug the last stretch.
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Forty-one labourers, trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand for 17 days, are expected to be evacuated shortly. The breakthrough came after "rat miners" were brought in around 7 last evening. They have to manually dig the last stretch of 12 meters.
The rat miners who made the breakthrough in Uttarakhand, digging the last 12 metre stretch in less than 24 hours, had beaten expectations," said Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain, a member of NDMA (National Disaster Management Authority).