Dozens of construction workers have been pulled alive from metal containers after they were trapped by a deadly Himalayan avalanche for around 36 hours, according to authorities in northern India.

Dozens of construction workers have been pulled out alive from metal containers after they were buried by a snow avalanche in Uttarakhand, India. They survived as the containers, which the workers were living in,

The workers were rescued from the steel containers they'd been sleeping in after an avalanche hit an area near Mana village in India’s northern Uttarakhand state on Feb. 28