41 workers emerge after 17 days trapped in collapsed Indian road tunnel

Rescued workers were greeted with shouts of joy from the site of the tunnel (Uttarakhand State Department of Information and Public Relations via AP)

Forty-one construction workers have emerged dazed and smiling from a collapsed tunnel where they had been trapped for the last 17 days.

It marked a happy ending to an ordeal that had gripped India and involved a massive rescue operation that overcame several setbacks in the northern state of Uttarakhand.