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Jeddah - Yasmine El Tohamy - SILKYARA TUNNEL: Indian rescuers began digging a vertical shaft Saturday to free 41 workers trapped inside a collapsed road tunnel for two weeks, after efforts through another route hit snags just meters from freeing the men.
In the latest setback in attempts to rescue the increasingly desperate workers, engineers driving a metal pipe horizontally through 57 meters of rock and concrete ran into metal rods and construction vehicles buried in the earth.
A giant earth-boring machine snapped just nine meters from breaking through.
Thick metal girders in the rubble are blocking the route, and using cutting tools to clear them is tricky from inside the confined pipe, only wide enough for a man to crawl through.
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami confirmed that vertical drilling had begun to dig 89 meters downwards.
Ambulances are on standby and a field hospital has been prepared to receive the men, who have been trapped since a portion of the under-construction Silkyara tunnel in the northern state of Uttarakhand caved in on Nov. 12.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami confirmed that vertical drilling had begun to dig 89 meters downwards, a risky route above the men in an area that has already suffered a collapse.
A heavy earth digger was seen being taken up a specially cut track to the top of forested hill above the tunnel, to begin the dig.
At the same time, a special superheated plasma cutter was being brought to the remote mountain location to remove the broken drill and metal blocking the horizontal route. Digging will then continue by hand.
“We will proceed manually,” Dhami told reporters, adding he had spoken to the trapped men.
“They are in good spirits. They said: ‘Take as many days as you require, don’t worry about us.’“
The workers were seen alive for the first time on Tuesday, peering into the lens of an endoscopic camera sent by rescuers down a thin pipe through which air, food, water and electricity are being delivered.
Though trapped, they have plenty of space in the tunnel, with the area inside 8.5 meters high and stretching about 2 km in length.
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