The five workers, who were trapped in the tunnel, died from asphyxiation.
I AM in a deep, deep tunnel, die-straight and dark and two miles long, a fingernail of faraway brilliance at its mouth brightening every second until, with startling suddenness, it is daylight.
Workers who survive accidents receive only basic emergency treatment, and to those who die, tunnel owners offer the family some compensation not considered adequate under legal or Islamic Sharia requirements, says Hanyia.
Soon everyone is running and screaming through a maze of randomly shifting tunnels, and dying in a variety of painful and ingenious ways.
At the White House, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said of Mr. Hussein, "He's either dead or badly injured or a coward hiding in tunnels while young men die".
Nationally, for every half mile of tunnel, one worker dies, Mr. Marino said.
Mr. O'Brien's father, Robert, a project supervisor who had arranged for his son to take the job, was with him in the tunnel when he died.
France and Italy began work on a rail link today to ease pressure on routes like the Mont Blanc Alpine road tunnel, where dozens died in a fire three years ago.
Investigators have been studying the site alongside Austrian soldiers who, by this evening, had removed the burned remains of 128 victims from the two-and-a-half-mile tunnel where they died.
This morning, a local farmer who sets up shop downtown outside the Post Office for four hours every Saturday (except the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas) told me that even the cold-hardiest greens in his high tunnel froze and died last week.
