Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways, General (retd) VK Singh reached the Silkyara tunnel site on November 24 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.
However, due to another technical snag in the auger drilling machine, which had been specially requisitioned for cutting through the debris, the rescue operations were briefly halted.
The rescuers drilled upto 46.8 metres inside the Silkyara tunnel till 10.20pm,
