wall – 41 workers who were trapped in a tunnel that partially collapsed during a road construction project in the Indian state of Uttarakhand were rescued since November 12.
After the drilling machines were damaged, 12 rat miners were brought to the area yesterday and reached the area where the collapse occurred by digging through the rubble. The first worker was evacuated from the tunnel hours after the authorities announced that work to evacuate workers on wheeled stretchers from inside the 90-centimetre-wide tube would begin soon. According to The Times of India (TOI), an engineer named Chandran from the rescue team said: “One person has been rescued.” In its news on the matter, TOI shared the information that the stranded workers started being taken out from the stranded place, one by one.
“One worker will be fired every 3 to 5 minutes.”
According to Hindustan Times, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) member Syed Ata Hasnain, in his statement on the matter at the press conference, said that each of the 41 trapped workers could be removed in an estimated 3 to 5 minutes, thus… The evacuation process is expected to take 3 to 4 hours.
Nitin Gadkari, India’s Minister of Road Transport and Highways, announced in his post on the social media platform X that all 41 workers were rescued from the rubble after 17 days. Gadkari noted that the rescue operation was one of the most important operations in recent years, and stressed that the efforts were well coordinated.
In his statement from X, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked everyone involved in the rescue efforts and noted that he was happy that the efforts were safe.
Rescue officials announced that 41 ambulances in the area were heading towards the surrounding health centers for all the rescued workers.
What is mouse mining?
Indian officials announced yesterday that a team of “rat miners” brought in from the country’s interior will try to reach the stranded workers by digging into the ground. While the authorities describe these people as “skilled workers”, “rat extraction” is emerging as a dangerous and controversial method used in India to extract coal, which is often left in narrow passages in mines.
What happened?
Part of a tunnel under construction in India collapsed during road works on November 12. The authorities stated that at least 40 workers were trapped under the rubble, and the workers were being supplied with oxygen and food through the tube. Some workers under the rubble were reported to have suffered health problems. The number of workers was later revised to 41.
The authorities, who discovered that the drilling machine had been damaged by the cracking sound coming from inside the tunnel during work, which had been ongoing for a week, stopped rescue work and stated that they were waiting for their new machines to arrive in the tunnel. area so that they can continue working where they left off. Disaster management official Devendra Patwal said that debris clearance efforts have advanced 24 meters so far. Batwal estimates the workers were about 60 meters deep. (foreign news)