More than a dozen workers were trapped in a tunnel when a glacier burst in Uttarakhand's Chamoli on Sunday. One of the survivors narrates their horrific ordeal.
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00:00We were all shouting for the government to come out.
00:05The sound was coming, saying, get out, get out, get out.
00:07We thought, I don't know what's happened.
00:09As soon as we ran out, the water was so high,
00:13that the force went straight into our mouths.
01:00We couldn't get out because of this.
01:03So, there was a lot of water on the tunnel.
01:06And we were getting water.
01:08We were not able to get out.
01:10We were not able to get out.
01:12Then, we heard a sound coming.
01:14They said, get out.
01:16They said, get out.
01:18We didn't know what happened.
01:20They said, get out.
01:22We didn't know what happened.
01:24They said, get out.
01:26We didn't know what happened.
01:28So, there was so much water on the tunnel that we caught the crane and kept it there for at least half an hour.
01:43We said, we have to save the life, so it took us half an hour to catch it.
01:48As the water level kept on decreasing, we slowly came down.
01:57There were some big stones in the tunnel, so we took a deep breath.
02:01Then we had given up hope that we would not be able to save ourselves.
02:06We were 300 metres away from the tunnel and we reached the face of the tunnel.
02:12As soon as we reached the face of the tunnel, we thought oxygen would take us there.
02:22As soon as we reached the face of the tunnel, we told ourselves that nothing would happen to us.
02:43One of our brothers caught the crane on his mobile phone.
02:47By the grace of God, he was able to save himself.
02:50He called the personnel tower and told them that he had caught the crane.
02:54He called the GM and the rescue team, the ITBP.
03:12God bless the ITBP.
03:27They rescued us and saved us one by one.