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Excavators began drilling with heavy machinery to fix a wide steel pipe that will help pull out almost 40 Indian workers trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan highway tunnel.

LUCKNOW: Excavators began drilling with heavy machinery on Tuesday to fix a wide steel pipe that will help pull out...

Rescuers have been working around the clock for two days to remove debris and carve out a path to reach those trapped.

The trapped men are safe and healthy, authorities said, and are being supplied food, water and oxygen through a pipe. Officials are also in regular contact with them.

Heavy machinery has been brought in to pull out nearly 40 workers trapped inside a highway tunnel in Uttarakhand state.

A team of geologists from state government and educational institutions arrive to determine cause of accident

Excavators began drilling with heavy machinery on Tuesday to fix a wide steel pipe that will help pull out almost 40 Indian workers trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan highway tunnel that caved in two days ago in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand. The 4.5-km tunnel, which was being built on a national highway that

Rescuers are trying to save 40 workers trapped under a collapsed highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas. Critics of the ambitious highway project say that it was pushed ahead despite concerns about its environmental impact.

The avalanche struck the 5,670-metre Mount Draupadi ka Danda-II.

A spokesperson for the State Disaster Response Force said 12 people have been rescued so far.