{"id":619927,"date":"2023-11-29T09:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T04:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=619927"},"modified":"2023-11-29T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T04:40:25","slug":"uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse-manual-drilling-advances-breakthrough-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse-manual-drilling-advances-breakthrough-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Manual drilling advances, breakthrough soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 17th day of the Silkyara tunnel rescue efforts began, rescuers crossed the 50-metre mark and needed to dig through seven metres of rubble using rat-hole mining techniques to bring out the 41 trapped workers. Twelve rat-hole mining experts are involved in the horizontal excavation through the last 10 or 12-metre stretch of debris of the collapsed portion of the under-construction tunnel on Uttarakhand&#8217;s Char Dham route. <\/p>\n<p>Rat-hole miners have been manually drilling since Monday night. The debris thus generated is taken out manually using ropes from the rescue pipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 17th day of the Silkyara tunnel rescue efforts began, rescuers crossed the 50-metre mark and needed to dig through seven metres of rubble using rat-hole mining techniques to bring out the 41 trapped workers. Twelve rat-hole mining experts are involved in the horizontal excavation through the last 10 or 12-metre stretch of debris of the collapsed portion of the under-construction tunnel on Uttarakhand&#8217;s Char Dham route. Rat-hole miners have been manually drilling since Monday night. The debris thus generated is taken out manually using ropes from the rescue pipe.<\/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-619927","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\/619927","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=619927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}