Puri, Nov 29: After 17 days of tense anticipation, relief and happiness swept the nation on receiving news of 41 trapped workers successful rescue from the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi on Tuesday evening.

Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has created a sand art at Puri beach to salute the efforts of rescue team.

He created a 5ft sand sculpture showing a tunnel where workers are trapped with a message "Salute to Our Rescue Team."

"This is art is to salute our rescue team those worked day and night to save 41 lives trapped in Silkyara tunnel. Thanks to our Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami for their endless efforts on this.", Said Sudarsan Pattnaik.

On Tuesday 41 workers were successfully evacuated from the Silkyara Tunnel collapse site. Of the 41 men, 15 are from Jharkhand, two are from Uttarakhand, five are from Bihar, three are from West Bengal, eight are from Uttar Pradesh, five are from Odisha, two are from Assam, and one is from Himachal Pradesh.

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