Uttarkashi Tunnel Collapse News | Army Engineers Are Currently On Standby | Uttarakhand News |News18

Army sources told CNN-News18 that 'a team of army personnel visited the Uttarkashi tunnel collapse site. Army engineers are currently on standby'.Rescue operation to save lives of 41 workers trapped at Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi entered its 9th day on Monday with agencies involved in effort adopting multiple approaches to reach trapped men. Prolonged confinement of labourers inside tunnel is raising serious concerns about their well-being. Workers are likely to be rescued in 4-5 days, said Bhaskar Khulbe, former advisor to PM. Rescue efforts were put on hold on Sunday and it was decided that vertical drilling would be done to rescue men, for which equipment had been mobilised from Gujarat and Odisha.