Rescue of workers trapped in India tunnel hindered again in final stretch of digging


Engineers have been digging for days to drive a steel pipe through some 57m of earth, concrete and rubble. - AFP

NEW DELHI: The rescue of 41 construction workers trapped nearly two weeks in a collapsed tunnel in northern India has been hindered again in the final stretch of digging, officials said Thursday (Nov 23).

Some blades of the drilling machine were damaged by a metal object in the debris.

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