{"id":13974,"date":"2023-11-26T06:08:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T06:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=13974"},"modified":"2023-11-26T06:08:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T06:08:15","slug":"uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse-metal-snag-halts-tunnel-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=13974","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand Tunnel Collapse &#8211; Metal Snag Halts Tunnel Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Due to the auger hit metal objects, the rescue of the 41 men trapped in a part collapsed tunnel in India has paused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Posting on LinkedIn, ITA president Arnold Dix, who is at the site in Uttarakhand, said: &#8220;Twisted steel, a jumbo and other equipment were buried in the collapse material and there was a huge cavity above the collapse zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said: &#8220;We have many strategies for the men\u2019s safe return \u2013 the co-ordination between agencies and military [is] astounding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The time duration that men have been trapped in the under-construction Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel in the Hmalayan region after a part collapse occurred on November 12, is almost two weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to connecting four important Hindu pilgrimage sites with a two-lane road, this 4.5km tunnel is being developed for <a href=\"https:\/\/nhidcl.com\/welcome-to-nhidcl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the auger hit metal objects, the rescue of the 41 men trapped in a part collapsed tunnel in India has paused. Posting on LinkedIn, ITA president Arnold Dix, who is at the site in Uttarakhand, said: &#8220;Twisted steel, a jumbo and other equipment were buried in the collapse material and there was a huge cavity above the collapse zone.&#8221; He said: &#8220;We have many strategies for the men\u2019s safe return \u2013 the co-ordination between agencies and military [is] astounding.&#8221; The time duration that men have been trapped in the under-construction Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel in the Hmalayan region after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[3597,55,3616,47,3617],"class_list":["post-13974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-collapse","tag-india","tag-metal-snag","tag-tunneling","tag-uttarakhand-tunnel","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}