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, approximately 120km from Hyderabad. Rescue teams were forced to use fishing rafts, tyres, wooden and bamboo planks to navigate through the flooded tunnel. On March 9, rescuers recovered the first body-Gurpreet Singh who was the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)'s operator.

The 50-year-old project engineer was id...