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Rescue workers pulled out all the 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand's Silkyara tunnel in a multi-agency rescue operation that hovered between hope and despair for almost 17 days.
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Instead of being brought out on wheeled stretchers through a steel tube that lined the 60-metre rescue shaft, the labourers crawled out of it.
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There was hugging and cheers as the ordeal ended.
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Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami and Union minister VK Singh welcomed the workers.
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CM Dhami greets a worker after he was rescued safely from the collapsed tunnel site in Uttarkashi.
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An ambulance with the first of the 41 workers left the mouth of the tunnel around 8 pm
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