\nLucknow, 14 Nov: Eight labourers from Uttar Pradesh are among the 40 trapped for two days under the debris of a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand, officials here said on Tuesday.
\nA portion of an under-construction tunnel between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri National Highway caved in on Sunday following a landslide, the State Emergency Operation Centre in Dehradun said.
\nAccording to a list of the trapped workers issued by the emergency operation centre, 15 are from Jharkhand, eight from Uttar Pradesh, five from Odisha, four from Bihar, three from West Bengal, two each from Uttarakhand and Assam, and one from Himachal Pradesh.
\nUttar Pradesh Relief Commissioner Naveen Kumar said six labourers from Shravasti and one each from Lakhimpur and Mirzapur are among those trapped under the debris in the tunnel. (PTI)
\nAll of them are safe, he added.
\nThe labourers have been identified as Ankit, Rammilan, Satyadev, Santosh, Jaiprakash and Ram Sunkdar from Shravasti, Manjit from Lakhimpur and Akhilesh Kumar from Mirzapur.
\nSubdivisional Magistarate (Bhinga) Piyush Jaiswal met family members of the trapped labourers from Shravasti and apprised them about the situation, Kumar said.
\nOfficials also met the families of the labourers from Lakhimpur and Mirzapur, he added.
\nA fresh landslide on Tuesday hampered efforts to insert steel pipes through the rubble of the collapsed tunnel to bring out the 40 labourers.
\nDrilling to insert the pipes to create a passage for the labourers began with the help of an ‘auger machine’, Uttarkashi District Magistrate Abhishek Ruhela told reporters earlier.
\n“If everything goes as planned, the trapped labourers will be evacuated by Wednesday,” he had said after visiting the tunnel and taking an update on the operations from officials at the site. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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