Labourers say they lived through ‘terrible days’ as oxygen levels dropped and they feared being buried alive
Most of the men had travelled hundreds of miles to find employment. Tunnel digging and construction is often dangerous and back-breaking work, but the dozens of labourers working on the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel, high up in the Indian Himalayan mountains, felt they had little choice.
Some had been doing this for work for than two decades, and a few had come close to disasters before. But none had ever dreamed of what would happen in the early hours of 12 November, when a rumbling noise was the first sign they were in trouble.
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