Rescue operation continued on Sunday in Transport Nagar building collapse incident in which eight people were killed and 28 others were injured. The mishap took place on Saturday.
The Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) Chennai received a distress email from the MV ITT Puma on 24 August.
The Mumbai-registered general cargo vessel was en route from Kolkata to Port Blair when it reportedly sank about 90 nautical miles south of Sagar Island (West Bengal).
Additional personnel, stores, resources and essential supplies were mobilised from INS Zamorin to augment the relief efforts and support the local community impacted by the disaster.
Speaking at a press conference after an all-party and cabinet meeting held in Kalpetta on Thursday, Pinarayi Vijayan said after the completion of the Bailey bridge by the Army in Mundakkai, the rescue operation would be carried out intensively by bringing machines to the landslide-hit site.
On Friday Bhaskar Khulbe Former advisor to the Prime Minister's Office, said that as soon as the technical snag will be fixed, the rescue operation to evacuate the 41 trapped labourers inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi will resume.
NHIDCL director Anshu Manish Khalko claimed that 24 metres of the escape tunnel was readied by Friday afternoon
The borewell was made by the farmer for boring. But boring didn't succeed here, so they started boring in another place and this borewell was not closed.
Eyebrows have been raised on the flawed strategy adopted for the rescue as before firing the tranquiliser shots the depth of the water level in the well was not ascertained, and pumps were put into service much later.
A special Investigative Team (SIT) headed by an IAS officers, was formed by the Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Sunday to inquire into the suspension bridge collapse in the Morbi town.
