The trapped men are safe and healthy, authorities said, and are being supplied food, water and oxygen through a pipe. Officials are also in regular contact with them.
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Excavators began drilling with heavy machinery on Tuesday to fix a wide steel pipe that will help pull out almost 40 Indian workers trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan highway tunnel that caved in two days ago in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand. The 4.5-km tunnel, which was being built on a national highway that
Rescuers are trying to save 40 workers trapped under a collapsed highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas. Critics of the ambitious highway project say that it was pushed ahead despite concerns about its environmental impact.