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Added on the 03/05/2020 13:40:37 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A Bundeswehr (German military) Airbus destined for India takes off from Cologne, Germany to deliver urgently needed respirators and medicine to the country suffering from a devastating Covid-19 surge. On board are 120 ventilators, medicines and 13 members of the Bundeswehr medical service, to be followed by an oxygen system in the coming week. IMAGES
After 17 days trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel they were building, Indian workers board helicopter to be airlifted to hospital in Rishikesh, a city in northern state of Uttarakhand. IMAGES
Pushkar Singh Dhami, the chief minister of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, greets workers after they were rescued from a collapsed tunnel where they had been trapped for 17 days. IMAGES
As Indian rescuers safely brought out all 41 workers from a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel after a marathon 17-day engineering operation to free them, ambulances can be seen leaving the tunnel entrance. IMAGES
Indian rescue teams digging by hand are within just five metres of reaching 41 men trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for 17 days, officials say. IMAGES