Navy and Army teams have joined the efforts aimed at saving the workers trapped inside a collapsed SLBC tunnel project thus scaling up the rescue operations on Monday. Teams drafted from multiple agencies have been at work taking positions in the 14 kilometres tunnel stretch where regular works were stalled following the accident.
The tunnel has been the site of intense operations involving the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), and other emergency teams. Heavy-duty pumping motors have been brought in to combat the knee-deep water that has flooded the tunnel, impeding progress beyond the 12.2 km mark.