The drama surrounding construction workers in India who were trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for almost two weeks continues: after another setback in their attempt to find a way to the 41 trapped people, rescue teams were once again working flat out on other solutions on Saturday.
On Friday, rescue teams again encountered obstacles while drilling through the rubble of the collapsed tunnel: just nine meters before breaking through to the trapped men, the huge special drill encountered thick metal beams and buried construction vehicles.
“Drill is beyond repair”
According to Australian tunnel expert Arnold Dix, who supports the work, the drill can no longer be repaired. Now he is the first to be rescued. However, rescuers still hoped to save the construction workers using a narrow steel pipe as a rescue tunnel.
At the same time, other teams brought a heavy excavator to the wooded hill above the tunnel to dig a 300-foot (90 m) deep shaft to the trapped people. However, the work above the heads of the 41 construction workers is complex and dangerous.
Work began on another rescue shaft
Work will also begin on digging a new rescue shaft on the other side of the tunnel. However, with an estimated length of 480 meters, this route would be significantly longer than the other two options.
The head of government of the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami, stressed on Saturday that authorities and international experts were working on all options. Regardless, “we will soon be able to bring our brothers back safely,” he said in online media.
Source: Krone
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