November 26, 2023
India’s bid to free 41 trapped workers enters its third week
The Indian army brought in specialized equipment on Sunday as efforts to free 41 trapped workers entered a third week, with excavations continuing in three directions after repeated setbacks in the operation. The Indian Air Force said on Sunday it was “responding with alacrity” as it flew its third cargo after the under-construction Silkyara road tunnel partially collapsed on November 12 in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Rescue officials said they called for an overheated plasma cutter to be brought to the remote mountain site after engineers drove a metal pipe horizontally through 57 meters (187 feet) of rock and


