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Everything that happened in Sikkim Tunnel Collapse

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Bodies of all 25 workers killed in Sikkim tunnel collapse retrieved

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  1. All 25 workers killed in an under-construction tunnel collapse in Sikkim's Namchi district were retrieved after a nearly 96-hour search and rescue operation.

  2. The workers were trapped inside Adit-3, a section of the 15-km-long tunnel of the NHPC Teesta Stage VI Hydropower Project, following a suspected methane gas explosion.

  3. The Sikkim government has constituted a high-level committee to probe the incident.

  4. Bodies were sent to hospitals in Singtam, Gangtok, and Namchi for medico-legal procedures.

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