The tunnel where workers are trapped in Uttarkashi in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, November 21, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERSThe first images emerged on Tuesday of 41 men trapped for more than a week in a highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas, showing them standing in the confined space and communicating with rescue workers. Read also: Rescuers drill to send more food to trapped workers in Indian tunnelDrilling had been suspended on Friday after a machine snag and fears of a fresh collapse. The trapped men are low-wage workers, most of them from poor states in India's north and east. "He said he is doing fine," Sunita Hembrom, the sister-in-law of one of the workers trapped in the tunnel, Surendra Kisko, told reporters after she spoke to him.

Source: The Express Tribune November 22, 2023 11:37 UTC