WATCH: 41 men freed from collapsed tunnel
The Indian construction workers had been trapped for weeks amid an intense rescue operation
RT’s Runjhun Sharma reports from northern India, where a dramatic relief operation ended on Tuesday with the rescue of all 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed highway tunnel.
A section of the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel, which had been under construction in the country’s mountainous Uttarakhand state, caved in on November 12.
The authorities had used a small pipe, which remained intact after the disaster, to deliver food, water and medical supplies to the trapped men amid weeks of grueling drilling operations.
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