8 Trapped In Telangana Tunnel For 72 Hours, Excavation Halts Due To Sludge

Efforts to rescue eight people trapped in a collapsed section of a tunnel in Telangana's Nagarkurnool district entered day four on Tuesday, with experts temporarily halting intensive excavation due to an increase in the amount of sludge and mud at the accident site. Teams of experts that had gone into the tunnel yesterday have said the sludge wall has now increased by about a metre. More mud and sludge are coming towards the tunnel inlet and the locomotive access has been reduced to about 11.5 kilometres.