Rescuers have drilled deeper into the rubble of a collapsed Road tunnel Northern India to help free 40 trapped workers drilling with a new machine has covered a stretch of 24 M so far and may require up to 59 M to enable the trapped workers escape the workers have been
Supplied with food water and oxygen through a pipe and authorities have been in contact with them via walkie-talkies authorities have not said what caused the tunnel to cave in on Sunday but the region is prone to landslides earthquakes and floods
Rescuers trying to reach 40 workers trapped in a collapsed highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas since last weekend suspended work temporarily on Friday, after hearing a sudden “cracking sound” and the drilling machine developed a snag.
The men have been stuck in the hillside tunnel in Uttarakhand state since Sunday morning after it caved in, but authorities said they are safe. The trapped workers have light and receive oxygen, food, water and medicines via a pipe, and can communicate via walkie-talkie. Their families have been waiting anxiously, some camped outside.
“At present, we have reached 24 metres inside the tunnel which — great, according to me — is a good situation. And we are trying to reach the other end as soon as possible. Like I said yesterday, if the present machinery becomes redundant, another machine from Indore (city) will get airlifted,” Director of National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. Anshu Manish Khalkho said.
The 4.5 kilometre tunnel is part of the Char Dham highway, one of the most ambitious projects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Authorities have not said what caused the cave in, but the region is prone to landslides, earthquakes and floods.
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Do prayers work here as well? ???
India need foreign help in drilling
Pray for them.
Prayers for the trapped workers ?
This is horrible. Perhaps India should consider outsourcing?
Let's see them all get home safely to their families.
Many people need to be fired, but then who is good enough to replace them? Why did it happen?? Because the area is prone to problems and the engineers obviously grossly miscalculated! That's why ?
I will keep them in my thoughts and prayers.
india super power 2030?
I love how nothing in this video comentates on the title?
Smart move hearing crackling while underground is NEVER good from any cause food water air covered take your time. were sending positive thoughts from Canada. (not trudeaus Canada)
learn from Hhamas how to make tunnel ??????
Sounds like these canadians are ready to build torontos infrastructure.
F A F O
Canada Doesn't Care ??
Stop cheaping out on safety and your country wont have this problem.
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Construction will continue after bodies found or not . Money over life tunnel will be finished
Trudeau must resign
Worship Cow Now
India standards east India truckers in Canada
Thinking of India ??
Hopefully Global News channel donates some of that YouTube money they get from the views and donate.
Love from ?????
Its amazing how people who have never worked in the Indian infra sector question the country's capabilities and yet conveniently forget that we have industrial accidents here in North America too.
nature is awsome one blow and the whole human kind becomes helpless,
hope they com out safe ..
It is doubtful whether the trapped workers will be rescued in view of the halt in operation
But INDIA says its already became superpower in 2020. But taking help from Foreign countries and poor workers are stucked inside for 6 days?
Why are they even thinking about making a tunnel in land full of earthquake landslide etc.?
So the area is prone to earthquakes, landslides and floods? Indian engineers…lets built here.