After 9-day trauma, 2 of 3 trapped workers rescued from tunnel in Himachal

September 21, 2015 16:31

And in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, two of the three trapped workers inside a tunnel was rescued by the NDRF team amid cheers. The name of the rescued workers are Mani Ram and Satish. The third worker untraceable.

The operation to rescue the three trapped tunnel workers resumed this morning, a day after it suffered a setback due to a high-speed drilling machine developing a snag. A portion of the under-construction tunnel of the Kiratpur-Nerchowk-Manali four lane project had caved in last Saturday. Since then the efforts were on to rescue the three trapped workers.

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