India tunnel rescue: delay hits effort to free 41 workers as digging enters final stretch
by Guardian staff and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#6GKF3)
Ambulances are on standby in the state of Uttarakhand to take the workers for treatment, as families of trapped describe feeling optimistic
The rescue operation to free 41 construction workers trapped for nearly two weeks in a collapsed tunnel in northern India has run into trouble in the final stretch of digging.
According to officials, some blades of the drilling machine were damaged by a metal object lodged in the debris.
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