Government agencies engaged in the rescue efforts at the site of the tunnel collapse on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri national highway on Tuesday said all 40 trapped workers were safe and oxygen was being relayed into the tunnel with the help of compressors.
Food packets are also being delivered inside the collapsed tunnel, and the rescue agencies are talking to the workers on walkie-talkie.
“All workers
are safe,’ an Uttarakhand government statement said.
It added that mild steel piper and the auger machines arrived at the rescue site early on Tuesday and work was on at a war footing to remove the debris from inside the tunnel.
