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Two rescue workers from Ukraine's State Emergency Service were killed by Russian shelling on Nov. 15 in Zaporizhzhia Oblast while putting out a fire caused by earlier Russian attacks, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

Rescuers are working around the clock Tuesday to remove debris to extract 40 workers who have been trapped for over two days after an under-construction tunnel collapsed in northern India. The tunnel collapsed Sunday in Uttarakhand, a mountainous state dotted with Hindu temples that attract many pilgrims and tourists. Senior government official Ranjit Sinha said falling debris has been hindering the rescue operation and added they expect to free the workers by Tuesday night or Wednesday.

Rescue crews have made contact with stranded 40 workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in India, and say they could reach them Tuesday or Wednesday.

40 Indian workers have been trapped in a partially collapsed tunnel for almost 3 days, and rescuers are racing to bore through tons of debris to free them.

Rescue workers have also had to evacuate cattle. "It's catastrophic," said 32-year old farmer Gaetan Guche, whose poultry farm has been flooded, with up to 60 centimetres of water at times over the past five days. Nearby, strawberry farmer Jean-Loup Mionnet, whose fields are partly submerged in water, said next spring's harvest was compromised, fearing he will have few to no strawberries.

Russian troops launched a missile strike on the night of 28 October on a fire station in the city of Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, damaging the building and service equipment and injuring eight rescue workers.

The rescue workers have completed the removal of the rubble of a secondary school in Nikopol. Four people were killed as a result of the Russian attack on 11 October. Source: Ihor Klymenko, Minister of Internal Affairs Details: As the minister reported, among the four killed are a 72-year-old man and three women aged 69, 67 and 60.

A series of earthquakes in north-western Afghanistan has left at least 2400 people dead, authorities say.

At least nine miners were killed after a shaft in a Zimbabwean gold mine collapsed, an engineer at the site and the miners federation said Saturday."Four bodies have been recovered so far" and five others are still stuck under rubble, Henrietta Rushwaya, president of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation, told AFP. Mine engineer Hussein Phiri confirmed to AFP that rescuers had located the bodies of the five miners stuck under the rubble.

A man has died as a result of his car hitting an explosive device in Kyiv Oblast. Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine Details: On 20 September, rescue workers received a report of a forest fire between two settlements of Ivankiv hromada [an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories - ed.