Rescuers use heavy machinery to clear debris from a tunnel as they try to rescue trapped workers.
The disaster has been blamed on rapidly melting glaciers in the Himalayan region caused by global warming. Twelve people were rescued from one side of the tunnel on Sunday but another 34 were still trapped at the other end, police official Banudutt Nair, in charge of the rescue operation, told AFP. Nearby, workers used an excavator to try to remove giant boulders from the road blocking the way to the second power plant, the Rishi Ganga facility.
“We just kept telling each other – come what may, we must not let go of the rods,” he said from his hospital bed.
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