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Rescuers use bulldozers to open up tunnel where dozens are trapped after Himalayan glacier collapse
Rescuers raced to free around 35 Indian construction workers trapped in a tunnel, two days after the hydroelectric dam they were helping to build was swept away by a wall of water from a collapsed glacier that barrelled down a Himalayan river.
Key points:
- Most of the missing people are trapped in a 2.5km tunnel
- Soldiers have cleared the entrance using heavy equipment and hope to soon open the tunnel
- Thermal imaging technology has been used to find survivors, while 28 bodies have so far been recovered
The workers were among 197 people who officials said were still unaccounted for as the death toll from the disaster, which also broke apart bridges, cut off villages and scarred tracts of mountain landscape, rose to 28.
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