Rescue teams continue today to remove debris to try to rescue the 40 workers who were trapped on Sunday after the collapse of a tunnel under construction in northern India.” A steel tube will be pushed through an opening created (…) to safely extract the trapped workers,” said authorities, who hope to be able to free them within the next 24 hours. Around 200 rescue teams from federal agencies State aid agencies are using drilling equipment and excavators to reach the workers. On Monday, a relief official announced that the 40 workers who were trapped when a road tunnel under construction in northern India collapsed, on Sunday, they are alive. “All 40 workers trapped inside the tunnel are alive”, Indian Disaster Response Force commander Karamveer Singh Bhandari said in a statement, adding that water and food are being sent. Rescue teams were able to contact the survivors, first through a message on a piece of paper, and later, they were able to establish communication using radio sets. An official from the Uttarakhand state rescue services said that the Authorities are pumping oxygen and sending “some small food packages” into the tunnel, through a pipeline. The 4.5-kilometer-long part of the tunnel that collapsed is about 200 meters from the entry, authorities told the Press Trust of India news agency. The collapse occurred in the early hours of Sunday, in the Himalayan region, when a group of workers left the construction site and a replacement team arrived. The tunnel is part of the highway Chardham, a flagship project of India’s federal government under construction between Silkyara and Dandalgaon to link the two important Hindu shrines of Uttarkashi and Yamnotri in Uttarakhand, a mountainous state that attracts many pilgrims and tourists. In January, Uttarakhand authorities transferred hundreds of people to temporary shelters after a temple collapsed and cracks appeared in more than 600 houses due to subsidence of land in the city of Joshimath and surrounding areas. (RM-NM)Source:Rádio Moçambique Online
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