Telangana tunnel collapse: Search ops underway to find seven lacking individuals

The personnel of various organisations concerned within the operation went contained in the tunnel on Friday morning, taking the required tools with them, an official launch mentioned.

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Rescue personnel from state-run miner Singareni Collieries together with rat miners have been finishing up excavation on the factors which have been recognized as doable websites of the lacking individuals.

The Kerala police’s Human Stays Detection Canines (HRDD) had been additionally taken contained in the tunnel to those factors on Thursday, whereas robots of a Hyderabad-based robotics firm had been additionally on the job.

The robots can entry “harmful locations” (contained in the tunnel), which people can’t attain and may function with 15 instances higher effectivity, official sources have mentioned.

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The search operation was occurring around the clock, together with de-watering.

Groups from Military, NDRF, SDRF, HRDD, Singareni Collieries, the robotics firm and others have been actively concerned within the mission.

The physique of Gurpreet Singh, who labored as a TBM operator, was recovered on March 9. The physique was handed over to his relations in Punjab.

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Aside from Gurpreet Singh, the seven others nonetheless trapped embody Manoj Kumar (Uttar Pradesh), Sunny Singh (Jammu & Kashmir), Gurpreet Singh (Punjab), and Sandeep Sahu, Jegta Xess, and Anuj Sahu, all from Jharkhand.

The eight people—comprising engineers and labourers—acquired trapped within the SLBC venture tunnel after a portion of it collapsed on February 22.