Tunnel Collapse

A three-member expert committee constituted by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) will investigate the reasons behind the collapse and also give suggestions on how to prevent such incidents in future.

A compensation of Rs 16 lakh each will be given by the construction company to the family of those who died after a part of an under-construction four-lane tunnel collapsed on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, Ramban Deputy Commissioner said.

The workers were buried under debris following a massive landslide after an under-construction tunnel cave-in at Khoni Nallah along the Srinagar- Jammu highway.

Over 250 villagers, including relatives of two missing workers, are camping near Khooni Nullah, a place near an under-construction tunnel where 13 labourers were buried under the debris following a major landslide two days ago.

The audit tunnel of T3 on the highway near Khooni Nallah in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district caved in at the start of the work at around 10.15 pm on Thursday, after which officials had confirmed that a labourer had died.

A labourer was killed and three rescued after a part of an under-construction tunnel collapsed on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in the union territory's Ramban district a day ago.

The rescue operation on the national highway stretch between Ramban and Ramsu started at midnight and was going on in full swing with rock-breakers being used to reach out to those trapped, he said.

One person was killed and nine others were feared trapped after a portion of an under-construction tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district collapsed in the early hours of Friday.

Two people were killed after an under-construction tunnel in Madhya Pradesh caved in on Sunday. The tunnel was a part of the Bargi canal project caved in at Sleemanabad, about 450 km from the state capital Bhopal..

Hundreds of rescuers were battling Friday to reach 14 construction workers trapped in a flooded tunnel in China, as the search entered its second day.

A worker in Uttarakhand is pulled out of a narrow tunnel by the personnel of Indo Tibetan Border Police or ITBP, who have been pressed into the rescue operation after a glacier break and subsequent flash flood in the state's Chamoli district, a mobile video showed.

A five-metre portion of a tunnel wall at Pernem in Goa collapsed early on Thursday due to heavy rain. A number of trains on the Konkan Railway route had to be diverted via Londa in neighbouring Karnataka, an official said. No one has been injured.

Parts of a building collapsed in Kolkata's Bowbazar area today, where tunnel boring work for India's first metro project is being done, officials said. There is no report of any injury, he said.

Shortly a build-up of methane caused an explosion and tunnel collapse at a mine in Marwaarh, east of Quetta, the capital of the fossil fuel-rich Balochistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

Four persons have been arrested in connection with the Monday's elevator collapse incident in an underground tunnel in which eight labourers were killed, the police said on Wednesday. The arrested persons included the elevator operator and three supervisors, a Pune Rural Police official said.

A three-member expert committee constituted by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) will investigate the reasons behind the collapse and also give suggestions on how to prevent such incidents in future.

A compensation of Rs 16 lakh each will be given by the construction company to the family of those who died after a part of an under-construction four-lane tunnel collapsed on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, Ramban Deputy Commissioner said.

The workers were buried under debris following a massive landslide after an under-construction tunnel cave-in at Khoni Nallah along the Srinagar- Jammu highway.

Over 250 villagers, including relatives of two missing workers, are camping near Khooni Nullah, a place near an under-construction tunnel where 13 labourers were buried under the debris following a major landslide two days ago.

The audit tunnel of T3 on the highway near Khooni Nallah in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district caved in at the start of the work at around 10.15 pm on Thursday, after which officials had confirmed that a labourer had died.

A labourer was killed and three rescued after a part of an under-construction tunnel collapsed on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in the union territory's Ramban district a day ago.

The rescue operation on the national highway stretch between Ramban and Ramsu started at midnight and was going on in full swing with rock-breakers being used to reach out to those trapped, he said.

One person was killed and nine others were feared trapped after a portion of an under-construction tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district collapsed in the early hours of Friday.

Two people were killed after an under-construction tunnel in Madhya Pradesh caved in on Sunday. The tunnel was a part of the Bargi canal project caved in at Sleemanabad, about 450 km from the state capital Bhopal..

Hundreds of rescuers were battling Friday to reach 14 construction workers trapped in a flooded tunnel in China, as the search entered its second day.

A worker in Uttarakhand is pulled out of a narrow tunnel by the personnel of Indo Tibetan Border Police or ITBP, who have been pressed into the rescue operation after a glacier break and subsequent flash flood in the state's Chamoli district, a mobile video showed.

A five-metre portion of a tunnel wall at Pernem in Goa collapsed early on Thursday due to heavy rain. A number of trains on the Konkan Railway route had to be diverted via Londa in neighbouring Karnataka, an official said. No one has been injured.

Parts of a building collapsed in Kolkata's Bowbazar area today, where tunnel boring work for India's first metro project is being done, officials said. There is no report of any injury, he said.

Shortly a build-up of methane caused an explosion and tunnel collapse at a mine in Marwaarh, east of Quetta, the capital of the fossil fuel-rich Balochistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

Four persons have been arrested in connection with the Monday's elevator collapse incident in an underground tunnel in which eight labourers were killed, the police said on Wednesday. The arrested persons included the elevator operator and three supervisors, a Pune Rural Police official said.