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Rescue of 41 workers from collapsed tunnel in India face new delay
Rescue of 41 workers from collapsed tunnel in India face new delay
Rescue teams trying to reach 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for nearly two weeks have stopped drilling again after a boring machine hit a new metal obstruction in rock debris.

Fri, 24 Nov, 2023

Efforts to rescue workers from collapsed tunnel in India to resume
Efforts to rescue workers from collapsed tunnel in India to resume
The platform of the drilling machine, which became unstable while boring through rock debris, has been fixed, Bhaskar Khulbe, a former adviser to the Prime Minister’s Office, said at the accident site

Fri, 24 Nov, 2023

Digging to rescue 41 workers trapped in tunnel in India hit by mechanical issue
Digging to rescue 41 workers trapped in tunnel in India hit by mechanical issue
The rescue of 41 construction workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for nearly two weeks has run into another delay during what was described as the final phase of digging to reach them, officials said.

Thu, 23 Nov, 2023

Rescue of 41 workers trapped in collapsed tunnel reaches last stretch of digging
Rescue of 41 workers trapped in collapsed tunnel reaches last stretch of digging
Once they finish excavating the additional 43 feet, the rescuers can insert and weld together pipes through which the workers can crawl to their freedom.

Thu, 23 Nov, 2023

Trapped workers get hot meals through pipe after nine days in collapsed tunnel
Trapped workers get hot meals through pipe after nine days in collapsed tunnel
The 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for more than a week are finally getting hot meals.

Tue, 21 Nov, 2023

Rescuers change approach in bid to reach 41 workers trapped in Indian tunnel
Rescuers change approach in bid to reach 41 workers trapped in Indian tunnel
Rescuers blocked from reaching 41 trapped construction workers have shifted to an attempt to dig towards them vertically after the nine-day effort in mountainous northern India was stymied by debris and technical glitches.

Mon, 20 Nov, 2023

Officials consider other rescue plans to reach trapped workers in India
Officials consider other rescue plans to reach trapped workers in India
Officials trying to reach 41 workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for eight days were contemplating alternative rescue plans on Sunday after snags with a drilling machine caused them to halt digging.

Sun, 19 Nov, 2023

41 workers remain trapped in tunnel in India for seventh day
41 workers remain trapped in tunnel in India for seventh day
Forty-one workers remained trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India for a seventh day as a new drilling machine arrived on site to replace the damaged one.

Sat, 18 Nov, 2023

Drill bores into tunnel rubble in India to create escape for 40 trapped workers
Drill bores into tunnel rubble in India to create escape for 40 trapped workers
Rescuers have drilled into the rubble of a collapsed road tunnel in northern India to fix wide pipes for 40 workers trapped underground for a sixth day to crawl to freedom.

Fri, 17 Nov, 2023

Indian rescuers prepare to drill to reach 40 people trapped in collapsed tunnel
Indian rescuers prepare to drill to reach 40 people trapped in collapsed tunnel
Rescuers in northern India have supplied food and medicine to 40 construction workers as engineers started drilling through rubble to reach them after a portion of the tunnel they were working on collapsed over the weekend.

Thu, 16 Nov, 2023

Some workers trapped in India tunnel collapse are sick as rescue delayed
Some workers trapped in India tunnel collapse are sick as rescue delayed
Some of the 40 workers trapped for days in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India have become ill as falling debris and technical glitches delayed work to free them, officials said.

Wed, 15 Nov, 2023

Bid to rescue 40 workers trapped in collapsed tunnel in India enters third day
Bid to rescue 40 workers trapped in collapsed tunnel in India enters third day
Rescuers are working around the clock to remove debris and extract 40 workers who have been trapped for more than two days after an under-construction tunnel collapsed in northern India. Officials hope to extricate them in the next 24 hours.

Tue, 14 Nov, 2023

Rescuers dig to reach 40 workers trapped in collapsed road tunnel in India
Rescuers dig to reach 40 workers trapped in collapsed road tunnel in India
Rescuers are digging through dirt and parts of a collapsed road tunnel to reach 40 workers trapped by a landslide at a construction project in northern India.

Mon, 13 Nov, 2023

Key Swiss rail tunnel damaged by derailment will not fully reopen for months
Key Swiss rail tunnel damaged by derailment will not fully reopen for months
Switzerland’s national rail operator has said that the world’s longest rail tunnel will not be fully reopened to train traffic until next September, again pushing back the target date for repairs of damage caused by a cargo train derailment.

Thu, 02 Nov, 2023

Taxpayer picks up the tab for sharp fall in Limerick tunnel toll income
Taxpayer picks up the tab for sharp fall in Limerick tunnel toll income
The Limerick tunnel route was first opened to traffic in July 2010 and motorists pay €1.90 to use the tunnel.

Fri, 13 Aug, 2021

China Tunnel Flood
Bodies of 14 victims of Chinese tunnel flood recovered
The bodies of all 14 workers trapped when a tunnel under construction was flooded last week have been recovered, authorities in southern China said.

Thu, 22 Jul, 2021

China Tunnel Flood
Three bodies recovered in search of flooded tunnel in China
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three workers in a flooded tunnel under construction in a southern Chinese city and are continuing to look for the 11 other workers trapped since Thursday.

Tue, 20 Jul, 2021

China Tunnel Flood
Flood traps 14 workers in tunnel under construction in China
Rescuers are pumping out water to try to find 14 construction workers trapped by a flood in a tunnel being built in southern China. The rescuers have not been able to contact the workers, Zhuhai city emergency management department said.

Thu, 15 Jul, 2021

Jack Lynch Tunnel upgrade to get real-time information system
Jack Lynch Tunnel upgrade to get real-time information system

Extensive fibreoptic cables are to be laid down in advance of the €100m upgrade of the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange to give motorists real-time information on the project.

Sun, 14 May, 2017

€4.8m ‘guarantee payments’ boost Limerick tunnel firm
€4.8m ‘guarantee payments’ boost Limerick tunnel firm
Traffic guarantee payments totalling €4.8m by Transport Infrastructure Ireland — TII — to the firm operating the €800m Limerick tunnel helped it post an operating profit of €6.8m last year.

Thu, 04 Aug, 2016

Tunnel dug with spoons as Jews escaped Nazi captors found in Lithuanian forest
Tunnel dug with spoons as Jews escaped Nazi captors found in Lithuanian forest

An international research team has pinpointed the location of a legendary tunnel that Jewish prisoners secretly dug out with spoons to try to escape their Nazi captors during the Second World War

Wed, 29 Jun, 2016

World's longest and deepest railway tunnel opens in Switzerland
World's longest and deepest railway tunnel opens in Switzerland

The world's longest railway tunnel is being officially opened in Switzerland.

Wed, 01 Jun, 2016

Drugs seized as border tunnel found
Drugs seized as border tunnel found

Authorities seized 12 tonnes of marijuana and arrested 22 people after discovering one of the longest cross-border tunnels between the US and Mexico, officials said.

Sat, 24 Oct, 2015

Work on €3bn Dart Underground shelved; focus moves to expanding current Dart services
Work on €3bn Dart Underground shelved; focus moves to expanding current Dart services

The €3bn Dart Underground project through Dublin city has been shelved, with new, cheaper plans to be drawn up.

Tue, 22 Sep, 2015

Teenager holds breath driving in tunnel, faints causing three car pileup
Teenager holds breath driving in tunnel, faints causing three car pileup

Luckily, no one was seriously injured.

Tue, 27 May, 2014

Options to stem Cork’s flooding
Options to stem Cork’s flooding

Neil Hegarty, a former Cork City Architect, submitted an unsuccessful alternative proposal to the Jack Lynch Tunnel. The alternative was for a barrage-type river crossing which had some attractive and functional elements.

Thu, 06 Feb, 2014

Lee barrier could save us from floods
Lee barrier could save us from floods

Some years back the planning talk was about a downriver crossing: will it be a bridge, will it be a tunnel?

Thu, 06 Feb, 2014

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