Rescuers were digging through dirt and parts of a collapsed road tunnel Monday to reach 40 workers trapped by a landslide at the construction project in northern India.
Rescuers were digging through dirt and parts of a collapsed road tunnel Monday to reach 40 workers trapped by a landslide at the construction project in northern India.
Rescuers are trying to save 40 workers trapped under a collapsed highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas. Critics of the ambitious highway project say that it was pushed ahead despite concerns about its environmental impact.
India rescue workers scrambled to make progress on Wednesday to free construction workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel after new debris fell in an area where emergency personnel had been working.
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Rescuers in northern India supplied food and medicine to 40 construction workers on Thursday as officials prepared to start drilling through the rubble to reach the men who have been trapped since a portion of the tunnel they were working on collapsed over the weekend.
A specialty drilling machine flown into the mountainous region of Uttarakhand is now being used to drill through a collapsed tunnel to rescue dozens of trapped construction workers on Thursday.
Rescuers in India are working to free 40 construction workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel. The operation involves using a machine to drill through debris.
Rescuers drilled deeper into the rubble of a collapsed road tunnel in northern India on Friday to fix wide pipes for 40 workers trapped underground for a sixth day to crawl to their freedom.
A disaster management official said Friday that drilling with a new machine has covered a stretch of 78 feet so far and it may require up to 195 feet to enable the trapped workers' escape
Efforts to rescue workers trapped inside a collapsed freeway tunnel under construction for nearly a week in India hit another snag on Friday when a specialized high-power drill stalled 72 feet into the debris.
Rescue efforts in India have stretched into a seventh day as emergency response teams race to retrieve 40 construction workers trapped underground since Sunday when a highway tunnel they were building partially collapsed in the country’s northern state of Uttarakhand.
By Akanksha Sharma, CNN (CNN) — Rescue efforts in India have stretched into a seventh day as emergency response teams race to retrieve 40 construction workers trapped underground since Sunday. The workers became stranded when a highway tunnel they were building partially collapsed in the northern st…
Rescue workers temporarily paused their desperate attempts to free 41construction workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel when they heard cracking noises that created a "panic situation."
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