The auger machine faced repeated obstructions over the past few days while drilling through the rubble to prepare an escape passage for the trapped men International Tunnelling and Underground Space ...

Dehradun/Silkyara: Even as the escape tunnel was being cleared by Army personnel for proceeding with horizontal drilling which is considered the best option by rescue agencies to reach the trapped ...

The operation to rescue 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel may take a long time with the auger machine for horizontal drilling facing repeated hurdles, and rescuers are now preparing to start ...

An operation to save 41 construction workers trapped for two weeks in a collapsed tunnel in northern India stalled after a drilling machine being used by rescuers broke down. The machine was brought ...

Rescuers said Tuesday are three metres away from the 41 construction workers who have been trapped inside the collapsed Silkayara tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district over two weeks, raising ...

On the 17th day of the Uttarakhand tunnel collapse, operations were in the last phase to rescue the 41 workers trapped inside the road structure. The authorities, till now, have used multiple ...

The operations to rescue the labourers trapped in the Uttarakhand tunnel stretched into 14 days on Sunday, with the focus now shifting to vertical drilling as the horizontal drilling exercise had to ...

With horizontal drilling to reach the 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel stuck for the third consecutive day, rescuers began vertical drilling above the tunnel, completing nearly 19.5 meters of ...

Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) [India], November 25 (ANI): A team from Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) is now on standby mode to initiate vertical drilling from top of the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel to rescue to ...