Uttarakhand CM meets workers brought out of Silkyara tunnel
The workers were pulled out of the collapsed tunnel after 17 days.
The workers were pulled out of the collapsed tunnel after 17 days.
On Friday Bhaskar Khulbe Former advisor to the Prime Minister's Office, said that as soon as the technical snag will be fixed, the rescue operation to evacuate the 41 trapped labourers inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi will resume.
NHIDCL director Anshu Manish Khalko claimed that 24 metres of the escape tunnel was readied by Friday afternoon
The borewell was made by the farmer for boring. But boring didn't succeed here, so they started boring in another place and this borewell was not closed.
Eyebrows have been raised on the flawed strategy adopted for the rescue as before firing the tranquiliser shots the depth of the water level in the well was not ascertained, and pumps were put into service much later.
A special Investigative Team (SIT) headed by an IAS officers, was formed by the Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Sunday to inquire into the suspension bridge collapse in the Morbi town.
Two Air Force helicopters with six officials had joined the ongoing search and rescue operations in the morning.
Police, Army, and locals recovered four bodies from the site and rescued five passengers of the ill-fated cab who were rushed to a nearby hospital where they also succumbed to their injuries.
The police said the bodies recovered from the debris have been shifted to District Hospital Ramban and their identification is underway. They had registered an FIR against the construction company.
Three seriously injured persons have so far been rescued from the debris. Teams of Army, NDRF, SDRF, Police, and locals were engaged in the rescue operations.
