8 Men Trapped For 48 Hours: Team Silkyara Joins Telangana Tunnel Rescue
Rescuers are racing against time to bring out the eight workers trapped for over 48 hours in a collapsed tunnel in Telangana. A state minister has warned that their survival chances are bleak as a pileup of muck and water hinders the rescue mission.
The 44-km-long tunnel behind the Srisailam dam in Nagarkurnool collapsed Saturday morning when some workers were inside repairing a leak. While most of them managed to escape, eight got trapped and have been out of contact since Saturday.
Four of them are labourers and four are employees of the construction company, said state minister Krishna Rao, who is overseeing the rescue efforts.
