Orissa, March 9 -- The 15-day-long operation to trace eight missing people inside the partially collapsed SLBC tunnel in Telangana's Nagarkurnool district made some progress on Sunday, with the cadaver dogs from Kerala identifying a possible spot for human presence under the rubble.

The specially trained dogs identified human presence at the D-2 point about 100 meters from the accident site in the final stretch of the 14-km-long tunnel.

The rescue workers were carefully excavating silt at the identified location. Some of the missing persons are likely to be traced by the evening.

The rescue teams also reportedly found human parts of a person six feet under the debris on Saturday night. They were carrying out digging work around the loca...