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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Stuti Mishra

Race to reach trapped workers after 10 killed in tunnel collapse caused by methane explosion in India

Sikkim is located in the northeast of India - (AFP/Getty)

At least 10 workers were killed and over a dozen trapped inside a tunnel in the Indian Himalayas after a methane explosion set off a landslide that sealed its entrance, cutting off their escape.

Twenty five people were caught in the tunnel, part of an under-construction hydropower dam in Sikkim, a small mountainous state wedged between Nepal, Bhutan and China in India's northeast.

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