After making touch with the 40 workers trapped beneath the wreckage of the collapsed Uttarkashi tunnel on Tuesday. Some relief delivered to them on the third day of the continuing rescue mission. According to the rescue plan, workers would be able to escape by pushing in the 900 mm pipes. The use of horizontal drilling equipment, authorities informed news agency PTI.
Disaster Management Secretary Ranjit Kumar Sinha told PTI that, given the speed of the rescue effort. The authorities had set a goal of freeing the stranded laborers by Tuesday night or Wednesday. To free the forty laborers who have stuck within the collapsed under-construction tunnel on the Chardham road for the past two days. Rescue crews started the procedure on Tuesday of putting huge steel pipes through the debris, according to authorities.
Up until now, steel piping used to transport food, oxygen, and other necessities to the guys who imprisoned. The idea was to use drilling equipment to force through sections of mild steel pipes with a diameter of 900 mm. One after the other, into the debris and construct an escape route for the workers. According to authorities, the workers are safe and are receiving oxygen, water, meal packets, and medications through tubes.
Trapped workers message to family: “We are safe”
Few casualties had the opportunity to speak with their relatives once the trapped men and the rescue crew made contact. On Tuesday, the son of one of the laborers who remains trapped, Gabbar Singh Negi, given a brief opportunity to talk with his father”. “He asked us not to worry,” PTI informed by Akash Singh Negi. It also requested that a puja be performed by a local priest in order to facilitate the workers’ safe and prompt evacuation.
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