Trapped workers in collapsed tunnel saved in China's Yunnan

2011-08-13 04:43:08 GMT2011-08-13 12:43:08(Beijing Time) Xinhua English

A worker receives medical treatment after being carried out from a collapsed highway tunnel in the Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 12, 2011. All eight workers trapped in the collapsed tunnel on Thursday have been saved and sent to hospital for treatment by 11:50 p.m. Friday. The workers currently were in normal condition, according to local authorities. (Xinhua/Shi Xianyao)

KUNMING, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers have saved the eight workers who were trapped after a tunnel collapsed on Thursday in southwest Yunnan Province by 11:50 p.m. Friday, according to local authorities.

The workers were sent to hospital for treatment and currently in normal condition, local authorities said.

Rescuers carry a trapped worker out from a collapsed highway tunnel in the Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 12, 2011. All eight workers trapped in the collapsed tunnel on Thursday have been saved and sent to hospital for treatment by 11:50 p.m. Friday. The workers currently were in normal condition, according to local authorities. (Xinhua/Shi Xianyao)

A trapped worker is helped to walk out from a collapsed highway tunnel in the Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 12, 2011. All eight workers trapped in the collapsed tunnel on Thursday have been saved and sent to hospital for treatment by 11:50 p.m. Friday. The workers currently were in normal condition, according to local authorities. (Xinhua/Shi Xianyao)

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