Coverage dated November 26, 2023 to November 28, 2023
41 rescued after tunnel collapse
Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
UTTARKASHI, India -- Forty-one construction workers emerged dazed and smiling Tuesday from a collapsed tunnel in northern India where they had spent the last 17 days -- a happy ending to an ordeal that had gripped the country and led to a huge rescue operation that overcame several setbacks.
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The workers have been trapped since Nov. 12 when a landslide caused a portion of the tunnel they were building to collapse about 650 feet from the entrance.
Rescuers broke through the last meters of debris to reach the 41 workers who had been trapped for more than two weeks. A landslide had caused a portion of the Himalayan tunnel to collapse.
All 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in northern India for more than two weeks were pulled out on Tuesday, bringing an end to a drawn-out rescue mission that had grabbed the country's attention for days.
NEW DELHI (AP) — The rescue mission was expected to last only a few days. Instead, it took 17 days to reach 41 construction workers who were trapped when a landslide collapsed a mountain tunnel in northern India earlier this month.
UTTARKASHI, India — Cheers and jubilation erupted as rescuers in India on Tuesday reached 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks in the country’s north and started pulling them out, officials said.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers in India began digging manually Monday in hopes of reaching 41 construction workers who have been trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north for over two…
The workers are being pulled out through a passageway made of welded pipes. They became trapped on Nov. 12 when a landslide caused a portion of the tunnel they were building to collapse.
India’s transportation minister says all 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north for more than two weeks have been pulled out after rescuers reached them on Tuesday.
UTTARKASHI, India >> All 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in northern India for more than two weeks were pulled out on Tuesday, bringing an end to a drawn-out rescue mission that had grabbed the country’s attention for days.
Indian rescuers drilled through rocks and debris on Tuesday to reach 41 workers trapped for 17 days in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas, and were set to pull them out one by one to safety, officials…
After 17 days, all 41 construction workers have been rescued from a collapsed tunnel in the Indian Himalayas. The trapped workers were pulled out one at a time, through a 3-foot wide “evacuation pipe” that was drilled through the rock.
The rescue mission was completed after rescuers reached the trapped workers earlier on Tuesday, ending a drawn-out rescue mission that had grabbed the country’s attention for days.
The workers had been trapped in the collapsed tunnel in the north of India since Nov. 15. Rescuers have drilled their way through debris to reach them.
