If you need a story to rekindle your love for our fellow human beings, you got one here.
I diligently avoided this story for days on end, I felt it was too horrific: 41 workers were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in India, while frantic efforts were made to free them.
It is true that they had oxygen, and at some point even food was delivered to them. But the days went on and the attempts to free them failed, you ask yourself: how long can they last?
Finally, 17 days in, it arose that they were sending human diggers, called ‘rat hole miners’ to do the job. They are specialists in dealing with digging in perilous circumstances.
To everyone’s glad surprise and relief, the ‘rat miners’ came through, and saved every one of the 41 trapped workers.
So, now – of course – it’s my favorite story in the whole wide world.
The “rat hole” miners have said that the operation involved 26 hours of digging by hand (tools).
The Guardian reported:
“Munna Qureshi, 33, was the first of the 12-man team to break through a wall of rubble and lay eyes on the 41 workers who had been trapped in the collapsed tunnel in the Himalayan mountains since 12 November. It was his…
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