41 laborers trapped in tunnel, place identified for vertical drilling
Uttarkashi (ANI): The location has been identified for vertical drilling to rescue 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara Tunnel, 11 days after the collapse of the under-construction structure.
According to Anshu Manish Khulko, director, National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL), “The location for vertical drilling has been identified. The road work for vertical drilling on the hill above the tunnel is almost complete. More than 350 meters of road construction work has been completed. BRO is constructing the road from both sides of Silkyara and Barkot which is almost complete.”
Meanwhile, a piling machine which got stuck yesterday due to narrow road has now reached the Silkyara tunnel site.
On Tuesday, rescue workers had attempted ‘horizontal drilling’ and fed solid cooked food simultaneously to the trapped workers.
A total of five agencies – ONGC, SJVNL, RVNL, NHIDCL and THDCL – have been given specific responsibilities to rescue 41 workers who were trapped for 10 days in a 2 km long stretch of the under-construction structure following a landslide. ,
Rescue workers succeeded by laying a 6-inch-wide pipe on Monday evening, but only fruits like bananas, oranges and medicines were provided to the stranded people today as the khichdi in cylindrical plastic bottles could not pass the distance of 53 metres. Long alternative life line.
Workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel were supplied with vegetarian pulao, peas-paneer and chapati with butter for dinner on Tuesday through a food pipe stuck in the collapsed part of the structure.
On November 12, during the construction of a tunnel from Silkyara to Barkot, 41 workers were trapped after debris fell in a 60-meter section of the tunnel.
The NDMA official said the tunnel caved in on November 12 and the second barcoat portion of the tunnel was already closed as work on that side had not yet started.
Rescue teams on Monday evening managed to lay a 6-inch pipe through which solid food and mobile chargers were sent inside the collapsed section of the Silkyara tunnel.
On Tuesday morning, rescue workers managed to insert an endoscopy camera into the tunnel and the first scenes captured showed that the 41 workers had enough space inside the tunnel to walk.
Visuals of workers trapped inside for the past 10 days emerged on Tuesday morning, giving fresh hope to worried relatives, some of whom are camping outside the site of the collapsed tunnel structure. (ANI)
