SLBC tunnel collapse

metro india news  I nagarkurnool

Rescue teams working to extricate the eight trapped men under the partially collapsed Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel here for over two weeks on Sunday found the body of one of them, a police official said.

The body was being taken out and moved to a hospital, he said. Earlier, the state had government deployed cadaver dogs of Kerala police to look for human presence and the rescue personnel carried out digging at the spots suggested by the canines. On Sunday morning Cadaver dogs were deployed inside the partially collapsed SLBC tunnel to search for human presence. The dogs joined the rescue efforts on March 7, when they were taken inside the tunnel.

Rescue teams dig beyond five feet at two points identified by Human Remains Detection Dogs (HRDDs), as workers may be trapped in the second layer of the dismantled tunnel boring machine (TBM), according to a senior officials. The Kerala police’s Belgian Malinois breed dogs are capable of detecting scent from a depth of up to 15 feet.

The Telangana government has decided to deploy robots for the rescue operation from March 11 to ensure the safety of rescue personnel, as the challenging conditions inside the tunnel, including water and slush, pose significant risks. The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has submitted an initial report in which, among other things, it has cautioned that rescue operations should be carried out with extreme caution and care in the last 70 metres (at the accident site), the official said.