Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 12:35pm on 28 Nov 2023,Tuesday India
In the latest updates from the Uttarkashi rescue site, 'rat miners' are manually digging the debris and are just 2 meters away from reaching and evacuating the 41 workers trapped for 17 days in Uttarakhand's collapsed tunnel. Work is being conducted slowly and cautiously over safety concerns. Elaborate rescue preparations include an underground hospital to stabilize rescued workers and a standby Air Force Chinook helicopter to transfer them once evacuated. Earlier, multiple prior high-tech drilling attempts were hindered by tough terrain and falling debris. Videos released by rescue teams show the daunting piles of concrete and metal blocking access. After external machines failed, outlawed "rat-hole" mining was deployed for the last hazardous stretch to break through and save the group deprived of natural light since November 12 in the collapsed Silkyara tunnel. Their liberty is now tantalizingly close.
