00:00Moving on to India, the death toll from a methane explosion inside a hydropower tunnel in the Himalayas of the
00:06country
00:06rised to 20, even as five workers remained trapped two days after the collapse.
00:12The toll was updated after rescue crews recovered more bodies from the under-construction tunnel
00:18at St. Mardung Yolungi in Namshi District of Sikkim State,
00:23where 27 men were working when the blast struck on Monday afternoon.
00:27Since two workers had escaped in the moments after the explosion,
00:31the state's chief minister Prem Sintaman said the five remained unaccounted for.
00:37The collapsed tunnel forms part of the Tista stage fourth hydroelectric project
00:43run by the state-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corporation.
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