‘Some Huge Information Anticipated In Subsequent 24 Hrs’, Says Official Supervising Rescue Operation At Silkyara. | ANI
Uttarkashi, November 22: 264 hours after the 41 staff had been trapped after a tunnel collapsed at Slikyara in Uttarkashi, rescue operations proceed. Officers supervising the rescue operation imagine they’re shut to creating a crucial breakthrough. Further Secretary Technical, Highway and Transport Mahmood Ahmed stated on Wednesday that some large information is predicted within the subsequent 24 hours as an extra 880-millimeter pipe has additionally been pushed 21 metres by the rubble to free 41 staff.
The official stated since Tuesday evening they’ve pushed three extra pipes, reaching 40-50 metres by horizontal drilling contained in the tunnel. At a press convention with the previous advisor to the Prime Minister’s Workplace Bhaskar Khulbe held on the mouth of the tunnel, Ahmad stated, ”An extra 800 mm pipe has additionally been pushed 21 metres contained in the tunnel”.
We’re additionally doing horizontal drilling
The official stated that round 12:45 am, ”They began drilling by the auger machine” and to this point, ”we now have pushed by three extra pipes…” ”So long as we attain 45-50 metres contained in the tunnel, we will be unable to provide the actual time. We’re additionally doing horizontal drilling, we now have entered round 8 metres from there as effectively…,” he stated.
He added: ”If there are not any obstacles, some large information could also be acquired tonight or tomorrow morning. An iron rod has additionally come together with the particles. It’s a matter of happiness that this iron in the course of laying the pipeline didn’t create any issues for us…”
41 labourers trapped for 10 days within the 2-km-built portion
A complete of 5 agencies– ONGC, SJVNL, RVNL, NHIDCL, and THDCL– have been assigned particular tasks to evacuate the 41 labourers trapped for 10 days within the 2-km-built portion of the under-construction construction following a landslide.
The collapse occurred on November 12 throughout the development of a tunnel from Silkyara to Barkot, trapping 41 labourers as a result of a muck fall in a 60-metre stretch on the Silkyara facet of the tunnel.
Rescuers managed to insert an endoscopy digital camera
On Tuesday morning, rescuers managed to insert an endoscopy digital camera into the tunnel and the primary visuals captured confirmed the 41 staff had ample area contained in the tunnel for them to maneuver about.
Visuals of staff trapped inside for the previous 10 days emerged on Tuesday morning, has given new hope to anxious family members, a few of whom are tenting outdoors the positioning of the collapsed tunnel construction.