Telangana tunnel collapse: Search operations underway to locate seven missing persons
The Hindu
Search operation continues for 7 trapped in SLBC tunnel with robots, HRDD dogs, and round-the-clock efforts.
The search operation to locate seven persons trapped inside the partially collapsed SLBC tunnel in Nagarkurnool continued at a rapid pace for the 21st day on Friday (March 14, 2025).
The personnel of different organisations involved in the operation went inside the tunnel on Friday (March 14, 2025) morning, taking the necessary equipment with them, an official release said.
Rescue personnel from state-run miner Singareni Collieries along with rat miners have been carrying out excavation at the points which have been identified as possible sites of the missing persons.
The Kerala police’s Human Remains Detection Dogs (HRDD) were also taken inside the tunnel to these points on Thursday (March 13, 2025), while robots of a Hyderabad-based robotics company were also on the job.
The robots can access “dangerous places” (inside the tunnel), which humans cannot reach and can operate with 15 times greater efficiency, official sources have said.
The search operation was going on round the clock, including de-watering.
Teams from Army, NDRF, SDRF, HRDD, Singareni Collieries, the robotics company and others have been actively involved in the mission.
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