In India, after more than two weeks, all 41 workers trapped in a road tunnel that collapsed in the north of the country were removed from the site this Tuesday, the 27th.
After several setbacks, military engineers and miners worked manually to clear a path through the rock and rubble to clear the last section and reach the men, who had been trapped for 17 days.
Quoted by AFP, Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari praised the “well-coordinated efforts” that led to “one of the biggest rescue operations in recent years”.
The workers were trapped in the early hours of November 12, when a section of a tunnel under construction collapsed, leaving them separated from the entrance by a “wall” of rubble almost 60 meters thick.
Indian television NDTV broadcast live the rescue of each of the workers, who were received, one by one, by triumphant rescue teams and some family members, according to Indian television NDTV, which broadcast the operation live.
The large-scale rescue mission has attracted the country’s attention in recent weeks.
The origin of the accident was a landslide that caused part of the 4.5 kilometer tunnel to collapse.