Rescue of 41 workers from collapsed tunnel in India face new delay

Rescuers at the site (AP Photo)

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.

Devendra Patwal, a disaster management officer, said it could take the rescuers several hours to cut the metal object and resume the final phase of digging at the accident site in Uttarakhand state.