The friends, relatives, public and the team working to save the miners trapped in the tunnel more than one km below in Himachal Pradesh, heaved a sigh of relief at last, when two out three miners trapped were saved and brought up alive.The men were working on a 1200-meter tunnel, which is a part of a highway project, when a large section caved in on September 12.Satish Tomar, Maniram and Hriday Ram were trapped under layers of debris and boulders.

After 200 hours of sustained effort and digging one km in the ground, the former two miners could be saved. No information about Hriday Ram so far.

The workers are alive even after 200 hours is  itself a miracle, though they were given, food, water, medicine etc. It is felt that there should be mechanism for quicker action in similar situations.