Telangana tunnel collapse: Rescue teams focus on areas zeroed in on by NGRI GPR unit but ambulances line up Domalpenta
The Hindu
NGRI's Ground Probing Radar locates anomaly in collapsed tunnel, rescue teams race against time to save trapped individuals.
Rescue teams are now scouting the areas zeroed in on by the NGRI’s Ground Probing Radar, which have found an anomaly on the surface inside the collapsed SLBC tunnel in Domalapenta in Nagarkurnool district on Saturday (March 1, 2025).
However, the arrangements being made at the tunnel site such lining up ambulances (at nearby Domalapenta village) and instructions issued to a team of forensic experts (doctors) from Hyderabad to reach the tunnel site at the earliest clearly indicate that the chances of rescue teams tracing the 8 trapped persons by evening is high.
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The measures also make it amply clear that the rescue teams have given up hopes on the chances of survival of those trapped inside from February 22 morning. After the GPR scanning found some soft material under the debris, the rescue teams were said to be of the view that it could be the bodies of the trapped persons.
On the eighth day of the rescue operations by multiple agencies, the teams are now trying to dewater the exact location and remove the silt. Rat miners have been pressed into service to work on the specific location identified by the GPR equipment.
On the other hand, over 100 labourers from Jharkhand engaged in the tunnel excavation work, have left for their native places during the last three days by taking a bus to Hyderabad and from there by taking trains. While leaving they stated that they were leaving on their own and not sure of their return to work whenever it is resumed after the rescue operation and deployment of of a new tunnel boring machine since a sort of of fear has overtaken their mind for now.
“The progress so far is slow by surely, the teams are expected to make a headway soon. Teams have installed two and five HP water pumps to dewater the identified grids to make the job easy,” a top official monitoring the rescue operations pointed out.
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