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Food and medicines were being provided to the 41 workers trapped inside the Uttarkashi tunnel, a portion of which caved in on November 12..
According to officials, all workers trapped inside the tunnel were stable and safe...
The rescue operation to help the 41 workers trapped inside the collapsed Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in Uttarkashi was still underway on Tuesday, as rat-hole mining experts were called in to begin manual drilling through the rubble..
According to reports, a total of 12 rat-hole mining experts will be involved in the manual drilling excavation horizontally through the last 10- or 12-metre stretch of debris of the collapsed portion of the under-construction tunnel on Uttarakhand's Char Dham route...
However, there was no possibility of work being hindered because of rain, he added.. . Giving out details about the health condition of the trapped workers, Hasnain said they were in a two-kilometre built-up stretch of the tunnel and were being supplied food, medicines and other essentials through a six-inch pipeline...
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