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UPDATED: February 14, 2021 08:06 IST
Rescue operations continue at Tapovan tunnel where 30 people are trapped after flash floods in Uttarakhand. (PTI)
Rescuers on Saturday began boring a wider and deeper hole into the tunnel at the flood-ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project in an attempt to reach the over 30 people trapped inside for nearly a week.
“The Silt Flushing Tunnel (SFT) was punctured on Friday night itself by drilling a 75mm-diameter hole into it but now it is being widened to 300 mm so that a camera and a water flushing pipe could be inserted into the tunnel where the trapped are possibly located,” news agency PTI quoted General Manager of the NTPC project R P Ahirwal as saying.
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Some footbridges were washed away after the flash floods in Uttarakhand. (Photo: ANI)
After the Uttarakhand flash floods cut off various villages from other parts of the region, Indian Army has started using trolleys to transport people from one point to another. A footbridge was broken due to flash floods, leaving people in villages disconnected. We ve built aerial river crossing to provide connectivity, news agency ANI quoted Major Utkarsh Shukla as saying.
Uttarakhand: Indian Army uses trolley to connect villages cut off after glacier burst in Chamoli A footbridge was broken due to flash floods, leaving people in villages disconnected. We ve built aerial river crossing to provide connectivity, says Major Utkarsh Shukla pic.twitter.com/aQEWqQeC6K ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2021