{"id":619619,"date":"2023-11-28T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=619619"},"modified":"2023-11-28T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T04:25:17","slug":"tunnel-collapse-86-metre-vertical-drilling-soon-as-horizontal-efforts-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tunnel-collapse-86-metre-vertical-drilling-soon-as-horizontal-efforts-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel collapse: 86-metre vertical drilling soon as horizontal efforts fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The operation to rescue 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel may take a long time with the auger machine for horizontal drilling facing repeated hurdles and rescuers are now preparing to start vertical drilling, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The vertical drilling will start in the next 24 to 36 hours, NDMA member Lt Gen (retd) Syed Ata Hasnain said, adding the front part of the auger machine was broken and efforts are being made to retrieve those from the tunnel. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to have patience as it is a dangerous operation &#8230; &#8216;is operation main lamba samay lag sakta hai&#8217; (this operation may take a long time),&#8221; he said, without mentioning any timeline for the completion of rescue operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operation to rescue 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel may take a long time with the auger machine for horizontal drilling facing repeated hurdles and rescuers are now preparing to start vertical drilling, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Saturday. The vertical drilling will start in the next 24 to 36 hours, NDMA member Lt Gen (retd) Syed Ata Hasnain said, adding the front part of the auger machine was broken and efforts are being made to retrieve those from the tunnel. &#8220;We need to have patience as it is a dangerous operation &#8230; &#8216;is operation [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619619","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=619619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}