Rescue teams are yet to free 30 people trapped in Uttarakhand’s Tapovan tunnel. The have been trapped there since February 7 when flash-floods wreaked havoc in the area
These are the first bodies to have been recovered from the tunnel at the site of the flood-ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project where people were at work when the calamity occurred last Sunday.
An alarm and hooter system has been installed and made operational for early warning system in the area to avoid further tragedy, an MHA official added.
Uttarakhand floods: Rescuers begin widening hole in Tapovan tunnel to find missing people; toll rises to 38 A hole with a diameter of one foot will help send in a camera to ascertain the location of the workers believed to be trapped inside the tunnel and a pipe to flush out accumulated water from the tunnel, an NTP official said File image of rescue workers at the NTPC tunnel. PTI
Tapovan (Uttarakhand): Rescue teams on Saturday began widening a hole drilled into an approach tunnel on the way to the possible location of over 30 people trapped inside a sludge-choked tunnel of the NTPC s Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project after a flash flood ravaged the area on Sunday.
Drilling of a 12-metre-long hole of 75 mm diameter in the intake adit tunnel to its inside has been successful, said NTPC General Manager, R P Ahirwal.