Allu Arjun movies, card games, murmura and muffled voices from outside. Rajendra Bedia, one of the 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel, spoke to ABHISHEK ANGAD on what kept them going during those 17 days before they were rescued in an unprecedented operation.
Uttarkashi tunnel: The other key factor in the rescue operation was that two of the stuck labourers, Gabbar Singh and Shaba Ahmed, took the leadership role inside the tunnel and motivated other workers and ensured that the team-spirit and morale remained high
Jharkhand resident Aditya Naik, whose younger brother Gunodhar Naik (28) and cousin Ravindra Naik (32) are among those trapped inside, said he would wait for them to be brought out before informing the family back home.
The forty-one workers who are trapped under a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand will be pulled out on wheeled stretchers one by one through a big pipe that is still being drilled to reach them, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said.