Hyderabad, Feb. 24 -- As eight persons got trapped around 14 km inside the tunnel of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal project after part of its roof collapsed on Saturday, a rescue team made headway and reached the spot where a tunnel boring machine was working during the incident. However, silt poses a challenge to move further to reach the spot where the people are believed to have been trapped, he added.
Nagarkurnool District Collector B Santhosh who is supervising the rescue operation, on Sunday said four NDRF teams - one from Hyderabad and three from Vijayawada, comprising 138 members, 24 personnel of the army, personnel of SDRF, 23 members from SCCL with equipment besides members of the infra firm are engaged in the rescue operations.
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