Rescuers have drilled up to 46.8 meters in the Silkyara tunnel.
New Delhi:
The drilling work at Uttarkashi’s Silkyara tunnel to evacuate 41 trapped workers was halted again on Thursday night after the augur machine encountered a technical snag.
Till now, rescuers have drilled up to 46.8 meters in the Silkyara tunnel.
“Currently, the machine is being repaired, which will take a few hours. If no other problem arises, the rescue operation will possibly resume tomorrow morning after 9 am,” an official said.
Meanwhile, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will stay overnight at the site to monitor the rescue operations which entered the final phase on Wednesday.
Here are the LIVE updates on the rescue operations:
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#WATCH | | Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) tunnel rescue: NDRF demonstrates the movement of wheeled stretchers through the pipeline, for the rescue of 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara Tunnel once the horizontal pipe reaches the other side. pic.twitter.com/mQcvtmYjnk
– ANI (@ANI) November 24, 2023
Union Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways, General (retd) VK Singh, reached the Silkyara tunnel site on Friday to take stock of the ongoing efforts to rescue 41 trapped workers.
The workers have now been trapped for 13 days on the opposite end of a portion of the under-construction tunnel, which collapsed on November 12.
The rescue operations entered its final phase on Thursday, with officials saying that only a few metres were left to be drilled for the rescuers to reach the trapped workers.
#WATCH | Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) tunnel rescue | Former advisor to PMO, Bhaskar Khulbe says, “The situation is much better now. Last night, we had to work on two things. First, we had to revamp the platform of the machine… Parsons Company had done the ground penetration radar,… pic.twitter.com/2qbHYPqs04
– ANI (@ANI) November 24, 2023
#WATCH | Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) tunnel rescue | Latest visuals from outside the tunnel
Drilling work was halted yesterday after a technical snag in the Auger drilling machine. Till now, rescuers have drilled up to 46.8 meters in the Silkyara tunnel pic.twitter.com/OVpFR5og7R
– ANI (@ANI) November 24, 2023
