{"id":617883,"date":"2023-11-17T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=617883"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T06:18:18","slug":"uttarkashi-tunnel-collapse-rescue-operations-enter-sixth-day-21-metres-drilled-through-rubble-for-trapped-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uttarkashi-tunnel-collapse-rescue-operations-enter-sixth-day-21-metres-drilled-through-rubble-for-trapped-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Rescue operations enter sixth day, 21 metres drilled through rubble for trapped workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Rescue operations to free 40 workers trapped beneath the debris of a collapsed tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarakhand entered their sixth day on Friday. Rescue workers in Uttarkashi toiled overnight using a robust machine, making headway by Friday morning as they drilled up to 21 meters into the debris-filled Silkyara tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anshu Manish Khalkho, Director of NHIDCL, the workers need to drill up to 60 metres to insert 800 mm and 900 mm diameter pipes \u2013 one after the other \u2014 with the help of a giant drill machine till an escape passage is created for the labourers stuck behind the collapsed portion of the under-construction tunnel, PTI reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Rescue operations to free 40 workers trapped beneath the debris of a collapsed tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarakhand entered their sixth day on Friday. Rescue workers in Uttarkashi toiled overnight using a robust machine, making headway by Friday morning as they drilled up to 21 meters into the debris-filled Silkyara tunnel. According to Anshu Manish Khalkho, Director of NHIDCL, the workers need to drill up to 60 metres to insert 800 mm and 900 mm diameter pipes \u2013 one after the other \u2014 with the help of a giant drill machine till an escape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}