Telangana tunnel collapse: Team Silkyara joins rescue operation | India News

Telangana tunnel collapse (Pic credit score: ANI)

HYDERABAD: Six members of the crew behind the heroic Nov 2023 Silkyara tunnel rescue operation in Uttarakhand joined the Army, NDRF, SDRF and native businesses on Sunday in accelerated efforts to avoid wasting the eight staff – two of them engineers – trapped inside a collapsed portion of Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) in Telangana’s Nagarkurnool district, stories Roushan Ali.
As the clock ticked on an operation that yielded little in over 36 hours, households of the trapped males and businesses attempting to achieve them drew hope from the rescue of 41 staff confined for 17 days contained in the Silkyara Bend-Barkot tunnel after a portion had caved in.
Silt, water pose problem for rescue crew at Telangana tunnel
Fears centred round the opportunity of particles, together with segments of the tunnel’s concrete slab, having fallen on the eight staff. There was no contact with any of the trapped males till late Sunday, though rescue groups have been stationed simply exterior the roof collapse website 13.5km contained in the tunnel.
The groups could not make any headway past the tunnel boring machine and particles due to the dual obstacles of silt and water.
Minister Jupally Krishna Rao, who’s supervising the rescue effort alongside along with his colleague N Uttam Kumar Reddy, stated there was waterlogging alongside a 2km stretch resulting in the collapse level. “Getting through this is a challenging task. We have to flush out the water before the equipment can push ahead. Only then can removal of debris start. Additional motors have been brought to speed up water removal,” he stated.
An irrigation division official stated there was hardly 5 to 10 metres of area left the place the eight staff have been believed to be trapped.
“The Telangana govt has requisitioned the Uttarakhand tunnel rescue team along with rat-hole miners to assist in the operation because they have the expertise. Better to have more hands in such a situation. We hope all lives will be saved,” he added.
The floor above the tunnel is 400 metres or almost half a kilometre in peak. Agencies concerned within the operation are exploring all doable choices to seek out the simplest exit for the trapped staff.