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The new high-capacity auger machine, sent by the Centre on Wednesday, started carrying out drilling inside the debris at the Silkyara tunnel collapse site on the Char Dham route in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district on Thursday morning...
The rescue team has undertaken both the exercise simultaneously - horizontal drilling as well as inserting steel pipes to expedite the process for making a passage for the safe evacuation of the 40 trapped labourers..
"It was around 11.30 am when the drilling process started and this enhanced the confidence level of the rescuers to complete their task," sources said...
Since the drilling process has enhanced the confidence level of all those engaged in the rescue operation, the speed of pipe welding process would be automatically fast during drilling," the source hoped...
"If the drilling process continues smoothly without facing hurdles in the form of any big boulder, we would be soon able to ensure safe evacuation of the 40 trapped labourers..
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