{"id":60094,"date":"2023-11-25T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T11:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/25\/indian-tunnel-collapse-rescue-workers-drilling-stalls-trapped-men"},"modified":"2023-11-25T20:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T11:29:14","slug":"indian-rescue-workers-try-new-shaft-after-drilling-stalls-near-trapped-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60094","title":{"rendered":"Indian rescue workers try new shaft after drilling stalls near trapped men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts to free 41 workers stuck in tunnel for almost two weeks hit another setback as earth-boring machine breaks down<\/p>\n<p>Indian rescue workers have brought in a new digging machine to open a vertical shaft to free 41 men trapped inside a collapsed road tunnel, after efforts via another route hit a snag metres away from them.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest setback in attempts to rescue the increasingly desperate workers, who have been trapped for almost two weeks, engineers driving a metal pipe through 57 metres (187ft) of rock and concrete ran into metal rods and construction vehicles buried in the earth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/25\/indian-tunnel-collapse-rescue-workers-drilling-stalls-trapped-men\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts to free 41 workers stuck in tunnel for almost two weeks hit another setback as earth-boring machine breaks downIndian rescue workers have brought in a new digging machine to open a vertical shaft to free 41 men trapped inside a collapsed road t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60095,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60094\/revisions\/60095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}