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All the 41 workers, rescued from the Sikyara tunnel after being trapped behind debris for 17 days, have been airlifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rishikesh. They are being taken on a Chinook helicopter, after preliminary health checkups were completed at the medical facility in Chinyalisaur.

A day after they were rescued from the tunnel where they had been trapped for 17 days, 41 construction workers have been airlifted in an Indian Air Force Chinook and are being taken to AIIMS in Rishikesh.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed his joy following the successful evacuation of 41 workers trapped for nearly 17 days in the collapsed Silkyara tunnel. Dhami thanked the rescue teams, local deity Baba Baukhnag, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He emphasized the need for a balance between ecology and economy and announced a review of all tunnel projects in the state.

As each second felt like an hour during their long confinement inside an Uttarakhand tunnel, the trapped workers started playing games such as 'Raja Mantri Chor Sipahi' to distract themselves and keep despair at bay, one of the rescued workers said

The Char Dham project is been blamed for the Silkyara tunnel collapse near Barkot, which trapped 41 workers under the debris for seventeen days

Hope that they would be rescued soon kept many of the workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand strong through their ordeal, some of the men said on Wednesday, hours after they were pulled out of 17 days of confinement.

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All 41 workers, who were trapped inside Uttarakhand's Silkyari tunnel since November 12, were successfully evacuated on Tuesday evening.

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