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All 12 survive tunnel collapse

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-04-04 15:38

All 12 workers survived more than two days after they were trapped early Wednesday when a railway tunnel in Jilin province collapsed, local news portal hctvnet.com reported Friday.

The rescuers have completed digging for a supply channel and are excavating for an escape pipe now, the news portal quoted a news conference as saying.

The tunnel in Hunchun of the Jilin-Hunchun High-Speed Railway, which is under construction, collapsed at around 2 am Wednesday, leaving 12 workers trapped.

 

All 12 survive tunnel collapse

Photo taken on April 2, 2014 shows the entrance of a collapsed railway tunnel in Hunchun, northeast China's Jilin Province. A tunnel of the Jilin-Hunchun High-Speed Railway, which is under construction, collapsed at around 2:00 am Wednesday, leaving 12 workers trapped. Rescuers have arrived at the collapse scene as the cause of the accident is being investigated. [Photo/Xinhua]

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