For 41 young people who have become hardened in the drought life, they will experience the most painful 17 days. Workers caught inside tunnel They were successfully rescued from where they were stranded on Tuesday afternoon. During the day they had finished digging through the two hundred feet of rubble that separated them from freedom. Sometimes in these two long weeks it was announced that the end was near, but this time it was the last. Teams at the entrance of the tunnel to saveA state of joy was declared among the relatives waiting for the ambulances with 41 stretchers.
In the afternoon, the stranded people saw the first new face since the collapse of a mountain in northern Uttarakhand (India) that isolated them from the world. A rescue worker explained that they were clapping and shouting. After I managed to fit the last one in sections Workers lying on wheeled stretchers and being dragged with ropes from outside began to emerge from the 90-centimeter-thick pipe. The process proceeded nimbly.
To: happy ending will contribute a lot indian hands aspect American technology. When a powerful exercise arrived from New Delhi last week with three military aircraft, it was taken for granted that this exercise would take place soon. The metal columns separated from the roof of the tunnel and moved at a speed of tens of meters until they broke first the platform and then the wings. The last ten meters remained and the machine was ruined. And they went there mousetrap mining, A centuries-old technique in India, illegal but valid, dangerous and reserved for those who suffer the most. These are teams of three types: a digother separate rubble and the last retreat To the outside. Using picks, shovels and baskets, they move with ropes or bamboo ladders through narrow galleries slightly wider than the human body. It is common in the coal-rich central state of Meghalaya and It often includes children. Deaths due to landslides or floods are not uncommon. India banned the practice nine years ago, but instability and lack of alternatives continue the practice. One of the miners sent to the region explained that the task in the tunnel was child’s play: “We will not have claustrophobia problems, we worked in narrower galleries.”
Drilling machines and machines
The collapse of the American drilling rig devastated family members and rescuers and prompted authorities to look for alternatives. On Sunday, drilling began on the forested hill where the tunnel was built. The vertical route was initially ignored because vibrations can destabilize an already fragile landscape and deadly landslides. This morning, half of the hundred meters separating those trapped at the summit had already been cleared. Drilling work had started from the other end of the tunnel, almost half a kilometer away. Desperation explains why these risky and difficult paths are taken.
41 workers, immigrants from rural provinces, spent 17 days deep in the mountain. It could have been worse: the two-kilometer gallery prevented raids and protected them from danger. himalayan cold From the beginning, they kept in touch with rescuers and relatives through a narrow pipeline through which they received food, water, medicine and even cell phones and memory cards with national movies and games. With walks, yoga and meditation They reduced anxiety.
The adventure of the ’41s monopolized national attention and brought structural problems to the fore. One is infrastructure security. Many geologists have warned that feverish construction is undermining the fragile Himalayan landscape, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has put links to famous Hindu temples and strategic border areas with China first. Another is the truth labor immigrants, Fuel for the economic locomotive is as necessary as it is underestimated. Fifteen of the 41 come from the rural eastern state of Jharkhand, and the state’s chief minister, Hemant Soren, lamented this week: “They bring in workers from poor and backward states for such risky projects and who cares if something happens to them there?” .