
A long 17 day journey for workers. Look at the Glimpse of the workers that are rescued after being trapped for 17 days. The process to pull out 41 workers trapped inside the under-construction Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi started on Tuesday evening, with many of them evacuated. Rat-hole mining experts manually drilled through the last 10- to 12-metre stretch of debris of the collapsed portion of the under-construction tunnel on the Char Dham route and cleared it. Warm clothes and initial medical checkups have been provided to the initial rescued workers. Twelve rat-hole mining experts were involved in the horizontal excavation through the last 10 or 12-metre stretch of debris from the collapsed portion of the under-construction tunnel on Uttarakhand's Char Dham route. This drilling was earlier carried out by a huge auger machine that got stuck in the rubble on Friday at around 47 metres. A portion of the tunnel collapsed on November 12, blocking the exit with 41 workers inside.