They were trapped when a tunnel section of the under-construction Srisailam Left Bank Canal in Nagarkurnool area collapsed. There were 50 workers inside the tunnel when it collapsed but 42 escaped.

The group was working on the Srisailam Left Bank Canal tunnel project in the southern Indian state of Telangana, a decades-long effort to build one of the world’s longest irrigation tunnels ...

Out of 50 workers inside the tunnel, 43 managed to escape safely but eight remain trapped 14km inside the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC). Their condition remains unknown more than 70 hours after ...