On the 12th, local time, a tunnel under construction collapsed in the Himalayan region of northern India, and all 41 trapped workers were rescued in 16 days.
The accident occurred on the morning of the 12th when the ceiling of the construction site of a highway tunnel under construction collapsed due to a landslide in the Uttarkashi area of Uttarakhand.
Immediately after the accident, the rescue team penetrated the wreckage through the pipe to reach the point where the workers were isolated, and supplied oxygen, food, water, and medicine.
Immediately after the accident, the rescue team also drilled an 80-cm-diameter steel pipe into the wreckage.
After the drill broke down, rescuers built a passageway through the rubble by hand and continued to use steel pipes, finally reaching the space where the workers were trapped on the afternoon of the 28th local time.
According to local media, the workers were all able to get out through the structural steel pipes.
EJ SONG
US ASIA JOURNAL
