AGI – Only five meters. This is the distance that separates rescue teams from the 41 workers trapped in a road tunnel that collapsed in northern India 17 days ago. A breakthrough is expected “soon”.So.
“The escape route has been prepared up to a depth of 52 meters in the tunnel and the passage will open at 57 meters… the rescue operation is expected to be completed soon,” Uttarakhand state Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami told reporters at the scene. without giving a specific time frame.
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Three teams of six take turns working in the narrow tunnel, which is intended to bring the workers outside one by one on special stretchers. Excavations were stopped last Thursday after more than 40 meters repeated failures of the auger used for drilling.
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