The rescue teams continue their work this Tuesday to remove debris to try to rescue the 40 workers who They were buried on Sunday after the collapse of a tunnel under construction in northern India.
“A steel pipe will be pushed through an opening created (…) to safely remove the trapped workers,” said authorities, who hope to free them in the next 24 hours.
About 200 rescue teams from federal and state aid agencies are using drilling equipment and excavators. to reach workers.
On Monday, an emergency services official announced that the 40 workers who were buried when a road tunnel under construction in northern India collapsed on Sunday, We are alive.
“All 40 workers trapped inside the tunnel are alive,” Indian Disaster Response Force Commander Karamveer Singh Bhandari said in a statement, adding that Water and food are being sent.
Rescue teams managed to contact the survivors.first through a message on paper, and later, they managed to establish communication through radio devices.
An emergency services official in Uttarakhand state said authorities were pumping oxygen and sending “some small packets of food” into the tunnel through a pipe.
The part of the tunnel that collapsed, 4.5 kilometers long, is located about 200 meters from the entrance.officials told the Press Trust of India news agency.
The collapse occurred early Sunday morning.in the Himalayan region, when a group of workers left the site and a replacement team arrived.
The tunnel is part of the Chardham Highway.a flagship project of the federal government of India under construction between Silkyara and Dandalgaon to link the two important Hindu shrines of Uttarkashi and Yamnotri in Uttarakhand, a mountainous state that attracts many pilgrims and tourists.
In January, Uttarakhand authorities moved hundreds of people to temporary shelters after a temple collapsed and cracks appeared in more than 600 houses due to land subsidence in and around the town of Joshimath.
Source: TSF
