{"id":245687,"date":"2025-02-24T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/hopes-fade-for-workers-trapped-for-days-in-tunnel-in-india\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:11:13","slug":"hopes-fade-for-workers-trapped-for-days-in-tunnel-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/hopes-fade-for-workers-trapped-for-days-in-tunnel-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes Fade for Workers Trapped for Days in Tunnel in India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indian officials have warned that the chances of survival for eight people believed to have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel for several days are remote, after a rush of silt and water caused the ceiling to cave in over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The group was working on the Srisailam Left Bank Canal tunnel project in the southern Indian state of Telangana, a decades-long effort to build one of the world\u2019s longest irrigation tunnels, which has been plagued by a series of delays since construction began in 2005<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The workers were about nine miles inside the tunnel on Saturday morning when the roof collapsed after a rush of silt and water, according to local officials and news reports. Some escaped, but eight were left trapped behind a tunnel-boring machine that blocked their exit. <\/p>\n

\u201cWater gushed in and the roof caved in,\u201d Manoj Gaur, the chairman of Jaiprakash Associates, the Indian construction company that is co-managing the project, said in an interview. \u201cThe tunnel is a big tunnel with a diameter of more than 10 meters. Imagine most of that height being filled with water, stone and mud.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n