Jammu, Feb. 26 -- Four days after eight workers got trapped in a partially collapsed SLBC tunnel in Telangana, a family near the international border in Jammu are eagerly awaiting safe return of their son and prayed for speeding up the rescue efforts.

Sunny Singh, 32, was working as a machine operator at the site and was among the eight workers trapped inside the partially collapsed tunnel in the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) project in Telangana's Nagarkurnool district on Saturday.

Despite relentless efforts by the Indian Army, the Navy, the NDRF and other agencies, no breakthrough has been achieved so far in the rescue operations as the teams had to navigate through thick muck, tangled iron rods and cement blocks to reach the acciden...