Rescue work to save forty-one workers trapped in a tunnel in India’s Uttarakhand state has been delayed by at least four to five days because the drilling machine broke down inside the tunnel.
Rescuers will begin digging manually once the faulty part is removed as the workers have been stuck inside the tunnel for two weeks after a portion of it collapsed due to a landslide.
The operation has been challenging due to the presence of rocks, stones and metal inside the debris and rescuers have to resort to drilling by hand because the auger keeps getting stuck on pieces of metal that have been mixed in with the debris, and say it would be better to switch to manual drilling instead of waiting for a replacement machine.
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