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April 4, 2024

HUALIEN, TAIWAN: A helicopter on Thursday swept up six people trapped in a mining area after Taiwan’s worst earthquake in 25 years, and rescue partners reached the 400 people airlifted to a hotel in a mountainous national park and confirmed everyone was safe. Hundreds of aftershocks rocked Taiwan’s eastern region, sending many to seek shelter outdoors, as the death toll from Wednesday’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake rose to 10, with 1,099 injured, authorities said. A helicopter carried six miners trapped on a cliff to safety in a dramatic rescue after the earthquake cut off roads in the high mountains of Hualien, according

November 28, 2023

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‘Rat miners’ to help rescue 41 men stuck in Indian tunnel

Rescuers on Monday brought in “rat miners” to bore through a narrow pipe and help extricate 41 construction workers trapped in a tunnel in the Indian Himalayas for more than two weeks after high-powered machinery broke down, officials said. The men, low-wage workers from India’s poorest states, have been stuck in the 4.5km tunnel in Uttarakhand state since it collapsed on 12 November. The men received food, water, light, oxygen and medicine through a tube, but efforts to dig a tunnel ran into a series of entanglements with machinery. Efforts to bore a tunnel horizontally through the debris trapping the

Helicopter rescues miners in Taiwan, stranded hotel guests safe

‘Rat miners’ to help rescue 41 men stuck in Indian tunnel

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