Fresh hurdles have emerged in ongoing rescue operations being conducted at Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand as machines have again stopped. Efforts are now being made manually to inch closer to the trapped 41 workers.
"Auger machine has encountered some difficulty again and that's why it's being dismantled again. Simultaneously efforts are being made to way to trapped workers manually," an officer in the knowledge of the operation said.
According to him, it seems that workers are unlikely to come out tonight now.
"We are analysing the debris and trying to figure out if they can push through it or if it can be cut manually," he said.
The workers have been trapped for the past 12 days after a portion of the under-construction tunnel on the Uttarakhand Char Dham route collapsed on November 12.
