Telangana tunnel collapse: Rescue groups concentrate on areas zeroed in on by NGRI GPR unit however ambulances line up Domalpenta

Rat miners and different rescue staff personnel dewatering the areas the place anomaly was recognized by the NGRI GPR unit contained in the collapsed SLBC tunnel
| Photograph Credit score: Particular Association

Rescue groups are actually scouting the areas zeroed in on by the NGRI’s Floor Probing Radar, which have discovered an anomaly on the floor contained in the collapsed SLBC tunnel in Domalapenta in Nagarkurnool district on Saturday (March 1, 2025).

Nevertheless, the preparations being made on the tunnel web site such lining up ambulances (at close by Domalapenta village) and directions issued to a staff of forensic specialists (docs) from Hyderabad to achieve the tunnel web site on the earliest clearly point out that the possibilities of rescue groups tracing the 8 trapped individuals by night is excessive.

Observe Telangana tunnel collapse LIVE updates

The measures additionally make it amply clear that the rescue groups have given up hopes on the possibilities of survival of these trapped inside from February 22 morning. After the GPR scanning discovered some delicate materials underneath the particles, the rescue groups have been stated to be of the view that it might be the our bodies of the trapped individuals.

On the eighth day of the rescue operations by a number of businesses, the groups are actually making an attempt to dewater the precise location and take away the silt. Rat miners have been pressed into service to work on the particular location recognized by the GPR tools.

Alternatively, over 100 labourers from Jharkhand engaged within the tunnel excavation work, have left for his or her native locations over the last three days by taking a bus to Hyderabad and from there by taking trains. Whereas leaving they said that they have been leaving on their very own and unsure of their return to work each time it’s resumed after the rescue operation and deployment of of a brand new tunnel boring machine since a form of of concern has overtaken their thoughts for now.

“The progress up to now is sluggish by absolutely, the groups are anticipated to make a headway quickly. Groups have put in two and 5 HP water pumps to dewater the recognized grids to make the job straightforward,” a prime official monitoring the rescue operations identified.

It could be talked about right here that over a dozen rescue groups now have confined their operations to a specific space forward of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), the place they’re hopeful of tracing the eight lacking personnel together with two engineers lacking since February 22 after a portion of the tunnel collapsed.

The position of NGRI groups have now come into sharp focus as their two GRP units are hopeful of displaying the correct location of surprising disturbance or anamoly. The GPR examine by NGRI has been accomplished between the tip of the tunnel and the place the place the SCR groups have dismantled the broken TBM. The GPR unit is able to going inside and finding out floor as much as the dying of 10 metres.

Within the meantime, Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy accompanied by Tourism Minister Jupally Krishna Rao, Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumar and Particular Chief Secretary (Catastrophe Administration) Arvind Kumar flew all the way down to SLBC web site to supervise rescue operations.

SCR’s Divisional Mechanical Engineering staff utilizing plasma cutters to clear the broken the Tunnel Boring Machine inside SLBC.
| Photograph Credit score:
Particular Association

Alternatively, South Central Railway’s Divisional Mechanical Engineering staff stepped up is figure by bringing in plasma cutters to take away the broken DBM. Over a dozen personnel from the SCR are around the clock shifts to chop the huge DBM and shifted the fabric exterior.