CNN —Rescue efforts in India have stretched into a seventh day as emergency response teams race to retrieve 40 construction workers trapped underground since Sunday.
The workers became stranded when a highway tunnel they were building partially collapsed in the northern state of Uttarakhand.
Rescue teams had been drilling non-stop to reach the stranded workers since acquiring a high-powered drilling machine on Thursday, but given the fragile mountain terrain, there were concerns of more debris falling and further complicating the rescue efforts.
Rescuers had drilled around one-third of the way to the trapped workers on November 17.
Reuters reported Saturday that the initial drilling machine broke on Friday and needed to be replaced.
Persons:
“, Manish Khalkho, Khalkho, Pushkar Singh Dhami, Narendra Modi
Organizations:
CNN, Rescue, National Highways, Infrastructure Development Corporation, AFP, Reuters
Locations:
India, Uttarakhand, Indore, Madhya Pradesh