By Lynda Myer
In order to reaching 40 workers trapped after a road tunnel they were building collapsed on 12 November, a rescue operation is undergoing in northern India.
Considering that collapsed caused because of a landslide, the workers are reported to have been 200m into the tunnel in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.
Although for providing oxygen and food link has been established with the group, rescuers have to excavate through several meters of debris to reach the men and the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) is responsible of rescue operation.
As NDRF assistant commandant Karamveer Singh Bhandari stated to local media, all the workers were safe and the wet debris was a creating a challenge, but the rescue team was leaving no stone unturned.
Additionally, according to the Indian Express report digging process with shotcreting is under way for 40m of the collapsed tunnel and chimney formation along the tunnel has started. A cavity has been formed 10m above the crown on both sides.
