Indian soldiers are preparing to manually excavate the tunnel this Monday and try to reach the 41 workers trapped for 16 days after rescue efforts suffered multiple setbacks.
With only nine meters of drilling remaining to allow the insertion of the final pieces of a 57-meter-long steel pipe, wide enough for a person to walk through and allowing workers to be removed, metal rods and construction vehicles that were in the way damaged the machine.
The Indian military will today try to clear the remaining nine meters of rocks and debris as temperatures plunge in this isolated mountainous region of the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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