Operations to rescue 40 labourers trapped under a collapsed tunnel’s debris here for the last three days have been hampered after a landslide at the site and technical issues in a drilling machine being used to create an escape passage, officials said.
The labourers are safe, and oxygen, electricity, medicines, food items and water are being constantly supplied to them, they said.
Rubble from the landslide fell on the collapsed part of the under-construction Silkyara tunnel on Tuesday night, hampering operations as well as injuring two rescue workers. They are being treated at a makeshift hospital, the officials said.
