Hyderabad, March 26 -- A 50-year-old project engineer's body was recovered from the partially collapsed Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel in Telangana on Tuesday, over a month after eight people got trapped at the under-construction site, district collector Badavath Santosh said. Eight people -- engineers and labourers -- got trapped on February 22 when a portion of the roof collapsed at the SLBC tunnel in Nagarkurnool district. Rescue teams used fishing rafts, tyres, wooden and bamboo planks to navigate through the flooded tunnel. On March 9, the first body of tunnel boring machine operator, Gurpreet Singh, was found. htc
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