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The men are doing well given the circumstances, a civil protection employee said on Tuesday. Ambulances were supposed to take the workers to a clinic for a health check.
The rescue work was marked by many setbacks. Specialist miners, together with the army, finally overcame the last meters of rubble by hand using the smallest of devices – in the end all the large machines had failed. At the same time, extreme caution was required to avoid causing further collapses, for example due to vibrations during the drilling.
The 4.5 kilometer long motorway tunnel currently under construction partially collapsed on November 12th following a landslide. The workers were stuck behind tons of rock about 200 meters from the entrance. The scene of the accident is near the small town of Uttarkashi in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, a popular tourist region with many Hindu temples. The tunnel was intended to improve transport connections there.
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