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The Munt la Schera Tunnel is a single lane road tunnel located in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It connects the Engadin valley with Lago di Livigno, through Munt la Schera. Completed in 1965, the tunnel is 3,394 metres (11,135 ft) in length. [1] The tunnel was built to transport building materials for the construction of the Punt dal Gall dam.
Rescuers in northern India have successfully removed a group of 41 workers from a collapsed tunnel under the Himalayas, the climax of a 17-day rescue operation to drill through rock and debris.
The collapse occurred at around 05:30 IST and trapped 41 workers inside the tunnel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Rescue operations were immediately launched, with a number of government agencies involved, including the National Disaster Response Force , the State Disaster Response Force , Uttarakhand Police , engineers from the Indian Army Corps of Engineers ...
Video captured by endoscopic camera shows trapped workers milling around and receiving food
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Munt la Schera (2,587 m) is a mountain of the Ortler Alps, located south of Il Fuorn (east of Zernez) in the canton of Graubünden. The Munt la Schera Tunnel runs inside the mountain at a height of approximately 1,800 metres (5,910 ft).
Rescuers are working around the clock Tuesday to remove debris to extract 40 workers who have been trapped for over two days after an under-construction tunnel collapsed in northern India.
They have been trapped since Nov. 12, when a landslide caused a portion of the 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) tunnel they were building to collapse about 200 meters (650 feet) from the entrance.