Uttarakhand: Rescued workers flown to AIIMS Rishikesh in Chinook helicopter
The workers have been shifted to AIIMS Rishikesh for further medical check-up.
The workers have been shifted to AIIMS Rishikesh for further medical check-up.
Arnold Dix is a Geneva-based Australian geologist and was involved in the Uttarakhand tunnel rescue operation.
The rescued workers are now under the care of doctors at a medical facility in Chinyalisaur.
All the 41 trapped workers have been pulled out safely and are being attended by a team of doctors at a make-shift medical facility.
Ambulances and other relief teams stationed at the Silkyara tunnel site have been asked to remain on stand by.
The practice of rat hole mining was banned by the NGT in 2014 for being "unscientific" and unsafe for labourers.
As of today, 31 meters of vertical drilling has been completed.
Following the auger machine failure, vertical drilling is being done to create an escape passage to reach trapped workers.
Some 47 meters of the roughly 60 meters of drilling has already been covered by the machine and the remaining work will now be done manually.
Drilling tool of the American auger machine broke inside the pipe being pushed through rubble to extract the trapped workers.
