The chief minister also announced Rs 50,000 reward for each of the rescue workers who went inside the evacuation passage and helped the trapped labourers come out of the tunnel.
After auger machine deployed for horizontal digging through rubble to rescue workers broke down again, vertical digging through hill above has begun. By Monday, 31m had been completed.
Earlier today, the auger machine being used for horizontal drilling of the tunnel that got stuck inside the pipe was cut and removed using a plasma cutter.
Vertical drilling expected to be completed in 2 days. Horizontal drilling by auger machine stopped after it broke down. Plasma machine from Hyderabad removing parts from rubble.
Rescue operations stopped Thursday after teams encountered problems in digging a horizontal path to trapped men, even though they had just 15 more metres of debris to push through.
Drilling work to rescue the trapped men was halted again Friday night, in yet another setback to the multi-agency effort. Auger machine apparently hit a metal object.
A passage has been made using 800 mm diameter steel pipes through the rubble at the tunnel to rescue the workers who have been trapped inside for the past 12 days.
The complex operation to rescue 41 trapped men, which has hit several snags, picked up in the last few days after the heavy drilling machine proved most successful.
A 41-bed ward at the community health centre has been readied for the workers trapped, and ambulances are waiting outside the tunnel to rush them there.
Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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