A portion of an under-construction tunnel as part of Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) collapsed in Telangana’s Nagarkurnool district on Saturday. While 43 workers came out of the tunnel, the remaining seven were feared trapped. The trapped workers include three from Jharkhand, two from Uttar Pradesh, and one each from Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. The state government had recently resumed the construction work on the tunnel to complete the project. The construction firm had started work four days ago and on Saturday morning 50 workers entered the tunnel. The tunnel collapse happened a few months after the collapse of the Sunkishala project wall. Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao held Chief Minister Revanth Reddy responsible for the incident. He said both incidents happened due to the government’s failure. He demanded a thorough probe into the latest incident. The accident occurred at the 14th km point. Electricity supply to the tunnel was disrupted.
