Experts visit Kashmir tunnel collapse site, NHAI to submit report in 10 days

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR : A committee of experts visited the collapse site of an under-construction tunnel at Khooni Nallah on Srinagar-Jammu national highway in Jammu and Kashmir in which 10 labourers were killed.

The three-member panel will also suggest remedial measures to complete the project. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways set up the committee under the chairmanship of Professor JT Shahu of IIT-Delhi. “Further action would be taken based on the committee report. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has already initiated a process to handle such emergency situations and is also taking all possible measures to avoid such accidents in future,” said the ministry.