The 12 rat-hole miners took turns to work like this inside the pipe from 7.15pm on Monday to 6.30pm on Tuesday to clear the last barrier of 8-10 metres of debris to bring out the workers trapped for 16 days
uttarkashi, when heavy machinery broke down in an effort to drill through the debris that had trapped 41 workers in the silkyara tunnel, the rescuers resorted to rat-hole mining,
a banned practice in the
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These Rat-Hole Miners, as they are called are Hasan, Munna Qureshi, Naseem Malik, Nasir Khan, Firoz Qureshi, Rashid Ansari, and Irshad Ansari, along with Monu Kumar, Saurabh, Jatin Kumar, Ankur, Devendra who come from Delhi and Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh.