Eight taken to hospital with minor injuries after tunnel fire

The MDA rescue service says eight workers who had been trapped in a hydroelectric pumped storage tunnel by heavy smoke have been transported to a nearby hospital with minor injuries from smoke inhalation.

Rescuers at the scene of a fire inside a tunnel at a pumped storage hydroelectric facility at Belvoir Fortress in Israel on December 13, 2021. (Firefighting service)

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