‘Body stuck in machine, only hand seen’: Rescue team recovers one body inside collapsed Telangana tunnel – top developments

NEW DELHI: The rescue team on Sunday recovered one body from the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel which collapsed on February 22, trapping eight staff. The body was discovered stuck in a machine with only hand seen, the officers mentioned.
“We found one dead body stuck in the machine, with only the hand visible. The rescue teams are currently cutting the machine to retrieve the stuck body,” an official knowledgeable.
Meanwhile, the Kerala cadaver canine squad, introduced in to help the rescue efforts, has found human stays inside the tunnel.
Here are top developments in the story:

Cadaver canines detect foul odor

As the rescue operation reached seventeenth day, the cadaver canines have been deployed inside the partially collapsed SLBC tunnel. Telangana irrigation and civil provides minister Uttam Kumar Reddy mentioned that the canines detected a robust odour at a particular location, suggesting the presence of three people.
He assured that the federal government would lengthen full help to the households of the lacking staff. The minister additionally assessed the continued dewatering and desilting efforts, confirming that additional updates would comply with after a overview on March 11.

Robotic know-how deployed

Reddy on Saturday introduced that robotic know-how had been introduced in to hurry up the rescue operations to find the trapped staff.
Describing the incident as a nationwide catastrophe, he harassed that the state authorities was leveraging superior international know-how to deal with challenges in the ultimate stretch of the 14-kilometre tunnel.
“The usage of bots for the last 70 meters (at the accident site) was discussed with (concerned) agency and robots will be placed and tried from Tuesday onwards, in addition to all the efforts which are being undertaken now,” a senior official informed PTI.
Despite two weeks of steady efforts by 11 nationwide-stage rescue groups, finding and retrieving the trapped staff stays a serious problem. The authorities is consulting international tunnel building and rescue specialists to find out the most secure method.
The disaster started on February 22, when a 3-metre part of the roof of an beneath-building SLBC tunnel collapsed on the 14 km mark close to Domalapenta in Telangana’s Nagarkurnool district—simply 4 days after building had resumed following an extended hiatus. While some staff managed to flee, eight obtained trapped