The breakthrough, after a series of failed attempts, was achieved by a team of "rat miners" digging manually through the huge mound of debris that filled a section of the tunnel on Nov. 12.

An curved arrow pointing right. A team of "rat miners" successfully rescued the 41 men who had been stranded in a highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas for 17 days. Rat-hole mining, once widely ...

A dozen 'rat-hole miners' were crucial in the rescue of 41 trapped workers in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand on Tuesday, November 28. They were called upon to perform manual tunnelling after ...

"I removed the last rock and saw them. Then I went to the other side. They hugged us, lifted us. And thanked us for taking them out," Munna Qureshi told reporters on Tuesday evening after coming ...

Fifteen men have been trapped inside a so-called rat-hole mine in India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya since 13 December. Priyanka Borpujari spoke to a miner who left his job at the same mine ...

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When all the efforts since November 12 failed to rescue 41 workers trapped inside Uttarkashi’s collapsed Silkyara-Barkot tunnel, a team of rat-hole miners was ultimately summoned. The operations ...

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While the rescue of the 15 miners stuck in a ‘rat hole’ mine in the eastern state of Meghalaya in India since December 13, 2018, is still underway, two more incidents of illegal mining have ...