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First of 41 Indian labourers rescued from collapsed tunnel

Workers pulled up through escape pipe after 17 days stuck in Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in Himalayan mountains

The first of 41 Indian labourers have been rescued after a gruelling 17 days trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayan mountains.

The workers began to be pulled out through an escape pipe on Tuesday night after the last few metres of rubble were drilled by hand. The dramatic scenes of the first men emerging on stretchers from the entrance of the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel came after over 400 hours, during which the rescue operation hit multiple obstacles, delays and false promises of imminent rescue.

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