India, Feb. 24 -- It's been two days since eight workers were trapped inside the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel following the collapse of a portion of it on Saturday.

Telangana minister Jupally Krishna Rao has said that a team of rat miners, who rescued construction workers trapped in the Silkyara Bend-Barkot tunnel in Uttarakhand in 2023, has now joined the rescue operations.

On November 12, 2023, a portion of the Silkyara tunnel had caved in, trapping 41 labourers inside the under-construction structure. After 17 days, they were finally rescued in a gruelling operation.

The rescuers had faced major challenges in reaching the trapped workers within the tunnel, despite using advanced horizontal drilling techniques through an a...