Trapped workers get hot meals through pipe after nine days in collapsed tunnel

An earth-mover makes a vertical drill on the top of the mountain (AP)
An earth-mover makes a vertical drill on the top of the mountain (AP)

The 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for more than a week are finally getting hot meals.

The food was provided on Tuesday through a newly installed steel pipe as rescuers work on an alternative plan of digging toward the trapped workers vertically.

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