India rescuers within five meters of reaching 41 trapped workers

Indian rescue teams digging by hand are within just five meters of reaching 41 men trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for 17 days.

The escape passage has been prepared up to 52 meters inside the tunnel, and passage will breakthrough at 57 meters. The rescue operation is expected to be completed soon," chief minister of Uttarakhand state said on Tuesday. They have been getting food, water, light, oxygen and medicines through a pipe.