Intensive operations on to rescue trapped men from Telangana tunnel. Rescue teams are racing against time to reach the 14th-kilometre point where the roof of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel collapsed on Saturday. The trapped men are from Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Jammu & Kashmir. At least two workers were injured and eight others were trapped when a portion of the tunnel being dug as part of the SLBC collapsed near Domalapenta. A total of 50 persons were working on the left-side tunnel when the roof collapsed for three metres. Those trapped include two engineers and two machine operators. The state government had recently resumed the construction work on the tunnel to complete the long-pending project. The construction firm had started work four days ago and on Saturday morning, 50 workers entered the tunnel for the work. The workers who came out said they heard an explosion, which could be a geological disturbance. The rescue teams called out trapped men but there was no response.
