The rescue workers have to drill up to 60 metres to insert 800- and 900- millimetre diameter pipes one after the other with the help of a giant drill till an escape passage can be created for the labourers, says NHIDCL Director Anshu Manish Khalkho
Rescue teams, working around the clock, have used a high-powered machine to drill through up to 24 metres of rubble in the Silkyara tunnel till Friday. Their efforts are gradually bringing them closer to reaching the 40 labourers who have been trapped inside for the past five days.
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Twenty-eight persons, three named and other unnamed, have been booked for rioting and criminal trespass by police for allegedly installing loudspeakers and offering mass prayers on a state government property in the Kashi Ram area of Lakhimpur Kheri.
On Tuesday, a UP Police SIT had said that the killing of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri in October was planned. The Union minister’s son is an accused in the case.