Bilaspur: More than a week since three men were trapped in a tunnel, efforts to rescue them has reached the final stage. A team from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) completed drilling work on the collapsed tunnel on Monday morning, paving the way for rescuers to move inside.
Three men have been trapped under debris for 9 days after an under-construction tunnel caved in Bilaspur. All three men are being given sustenance and medical supplies. Officials had also deployed oxygen pumping machines to maintain the air supply inside the tunnel.
On September 12, three workers were trapped in Tunnel Number 4 being built for the Kiratpur-Nerchowk four-lane project after a cave-in blocked the entrance with tonnes of earth and boulders. The 1.2-kilometre tunnel, a project worth Rs 82 crore, had been dug 275 metres when it collapsed 80 metres from the mouth.
Rescuers first made contact with Satish Tomar and Mani Ram, two of the trapped workers, on September 17 and food and water were dropped during the week after engineers drilled a thin 47-metre shaft down to the roof of the tunnel.
On Saturday, a video of the labourers had emerged which showed that contact was established with two of the workers though a camera and microphone that were dropped through a hole drilled on top of the mountain.
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