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Location has been identified for vertical drilling to bring out 41 workers trapped inside Silkyara Tunnel, 11 days after the underconstruction structure collapsed. Uttarakhand Tunnel Collapse: Location for Vertical Drilling Identified To Evacuate 41 Workers Trapped Inside Silkyara Tunnel (Watch Video).

A video of trapped men captured by an endoscopic camera was shared by authorities on Tuesday

The rescuers have drilled about halfway through the debris where 41 workers are still trapped following the collapse of a tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi for 11 days, media reports said.

Scores of officials on round-the-clock duty to rescue 41 workers trapped in an Uttarakhand tunnel will now be joined by two robots.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will carry out a safety audit of more than two dozen tunnels it is building after one such tunnel in the Himalayas collapsed this month, trapping 41 construction workers, the government said on Wednesday. Rescuers have been battling to pull out the 41 men stuck in a 4.5-km (3-mile) tunnel in the mountainous Uttarakhand state since it caved in early on Nov. 12. "To ensure safety and adherence to the highest quality standards during constructi...

"They told me not to worry and that we would soon meet outside," says Indrajeet Kumar with a renewed sense of hope after he was able to speak to two of his family members who are among the 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel.

The rescue operation, as of Wednesday evening, entered the ‘final phase’ with officials saying that ‘good news is likely’ at any moment. | Latest News India

PTI As the first visuals of the 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand emerged Tuesday, officials said they have resumed the stalled operation to evacuate them through an escape passage cutting across the debris. A press release issued in the evening by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in Delhi…

Uttarakhand and the Himalayas are in the news once again. And the inconvenient truth rears its head once more.

UTTARKASHI/ NEW DELHI — Ambulances were on standby and doctors summoned to the disaster site as a multi-agency effort to rescue 41 men trapped in the Silkyara