Seven workers have been killed and two are missing after water and debris surged into a tunnel being built for a hydropower project in the Indian Himalayas, with at least 14 others injured in the incident.
Twenty-two men were inside the tunnel at Pipalkoti, in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, a mountainous state in northern India, when the water rushed in at about 7pm on Thursday, according to the State Disaster Response Force. Twenty-one have been brought out, seven of them dead, while the fate of the other two was not immediately known.
