p Inside a flooded tunnel, a hero, his team and an agonising 7 hours /p p On the ground, ITBP deputy commandant Nitesh Sharma got to work with a 50-member team /p p Senior foreman Vijendra Kumar, 50, kept the spirits of his 11-member team up as they waited in the swamped tunnel /p p It has, so far, been the only successful rescue operation in the Uttarakhand flood all 12 men were saved. /p p The 12 men who had been trapped inside Tunnel Number 2, one of two in NTPC s Tapovan hydel project that got washed away in the glacial outburst-triggered flood on Sunday /p