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The rescue mission was expected to last only a few days. Instead, it took 17 days to reach 41 construction workers who were trapped when a landslide collapsed a mountain tunnel in northern India earlier this month. The excruciating wait finally ended at nightfall on Tuesday, as temperatures dropped near the accident site in the mountainous state of Uttarakhand.
The workers have been stuck for two weeks after a part of a tunnel they were working in collapsed.
Rescuers have started to dig vertically into the tunnel to carve an alternative route for the trapped men.
The workers have been trapped behind debris after a landslide near the Himalayas caused a tunnel to collapse on Nov. 12.
SILKYARA, India (Reuters) -Indian rescuers began drilling vertically on Sunday from the top of a mountain under which 41 workers became trapped two weeks ago while working on a highway tunnel in the Himalayas, government officials said. The men, construction workers from some of India's poorest states, have been stuck in the 4.5-km (3-mile) tunnel being built in Uttarakhand state since it caved in early on Nov. 12. But rescuing them will take much longer than previously hoped as rescuers have switched to manual drilling following damage to the drilling machine, officials said on Saturda...