7 killed, 3 trapped after under-construction tunnel in Uttarakhand's Chamoli collapses
Of the 22 workers on shift when the incident occurred around 7pm on Thursday, 19 have been brought out — seven of them declared dead.
At least seven workers were confirmed dead and three remain trapped after a flood inundated an under-construction hydropower tunnel in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, near the town of Chamoli. The disaster unfolded Thursday evening when water rushed through the 1.2-kilometer tail-race tunnel at the Tehri Hydro Development Corporation's Vishnugad-Pipalkoti project.
Three rescue teams, including those from India's National Disaster Response Force, Army, and fire services, have been battling high water levels and poor visibility to locate the missing men. The three still missing are Lucas Topno from Jharkhand, Chetan Poyam, and Devnath, both from Chhattisgarh. The incident is the ninth hydropower-related accident or weather-related disaster in the Himalayan region since mid-June.
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