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Rescue workers on Tuesday were close to breaking through the 60-metre stretch of rubble of the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand in which 41 workers are trapped for the last 16 days, officials said.
Once the breakthrough is achieved, it would take 3-4 hours to bring out all the trapped workers, NDMA Member Lt Gen (retd) Syed Ata Hasnain said
The rescue operation has been hampered as a section of the auger machine broke and became lodged in the tunnel, causing a slowdown in progress.
Rescue efforts for the 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand's Silkyara tunnel entered the final stretch today. However, drilling operations had to be halted late last night after the auger machine broke down, said tunneling expert Arnold Dix.