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India tunnel blast kills 10 workers, leaves at least 15 trapped

Fifteen Indian workers were feared trapped on Tuesday after a blast caused by a suspected gas leak in a tunnel at โ€Œa hydroelectric project in the rugged state of Sikkim killed 10, authorities said. Mondayโ€™s incident took place at state-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corpโ€™s (NHPC) project on the Teesta river in the northeastern stateโ€™s โ village of Samardung, district official Subash Ghimirey said. A sudden burst of gas suspected to be methane trapped or embedded in rocks โ€Œin the tunnel caused...