{"id":60142,"date":"2023-11-27T20:53:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T11:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/nov\/27\/india-tunnel-collapse-rescuers-start-drilling-downwards-after-safer-options-fail-video"},"modified":"2023-11-27T20:53:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T11:53:34","slug":"india-tunnel-collapse-rescuers-start-drilling-downwards-after-safer-options-fail-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60142","title":{"rendered":"India tunnel collapse: rescuers start drilling downwards after safer options fail \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers have begun a &#8216;risky&#8217; attempt to drill vertically down to rescue 41 Indian workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/21\/first-images-indian-workers-trapped-tunnel-collapse\"> labourers have been trapped<\/a> in the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in the mountainous state of Uttarakhand for more than two weeks after a landslide caused the entrance of the tunnel to collapse and become blocked.<\/p>\n<p>The  drilling machine that had been horizontally penetrating the thick rubble broke down on Friday after it hit a metal obstruction. Officials warned vertical drilling was risky as the heavy vibrations could pose a \u201chuge threat\u201d to the mountains and also destabilise the surrounding terrain where others are living<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/27\/india-silkyara-barkot-tunnel-collapse-rescuers-vertical-drilling\"><strong>India tunnel collapse: rescuers attempt vertical drilling after safer options hit trouble<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/nov\/27\/india-tunnel-collapse-rescuers-start-drilling-downwards-after-safer-options-fail-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers have begun a &#8216;risky&#8217; attempt to drill vertically down to rescue 41 Indian workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel.The labourers have been trapped in the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in the mountainous state of Uttarakhand for more than two we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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-60142","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\/60142","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60150,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60142\/revisions\/60150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}