Rescuers just a metre from trapped tunnel victim

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PUBLISHED: 28 Aug 2024 at 09: 50

Rescuers dig through the collapsed section of the railway tunnel, progressing slowly towards the three trapped workers, in Nakhon Ratchasima on Tuesday. (Photo: Public Relations Department)
On Tuesday in Nakhon Ratchasima, rescuers dig through the partially collapsed section of the railroad tunnel and gradually advance toward the three stuck workers. ( Photo: Public Relations Department )

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The provincial government reported on Wednesday morning that rescuers were one meter away from one of the three buried workers when they were digging through the dust in the fell train tunnel.

Chaiwat Chuenkosum claimed that they were moving very cautiously in the direction of the three subjects, whose vital symptoms were still being looked up by scanners.

The health of both firefighters and victims was a problem as rocks and soil continued to fall in the underconstruction hole. As the evacuation pipe advanced, reinforcement supports were required to support them. &nbsp,

” Earth is the main obstacle to the rescue quest”, he said.

On Wednesday morning, the government claimed, daylight reached rescuers after falling earth opened overhead doors. &nbsp,

According to him, authorities and firefighters continued to be cheerful as every check revealed the vital indicators of all three buried men.

” We hope that the vehicles]trapped in the collapsed tunnel ] provide a space that protects the three men. Governor Chaiwat said that employees there are taught how to live in the event of a collapse.

According to a test, rescuers were approximately 1.2 meters apart from one target. Another was eight meters and the second was about four meters aside, he said.

Chinese construction workers, a building supervisor, and a shovel driver are two of the buried workers. A vehicle drivers from Myanmar is the other.

They have been trapped since the tunnel’s collapse on Saturday evening. The hole is part of the&nbsp, Sino-Thai high-speed rail being built between Bangkok and Nong Khai state, which borders Laos.

Approximately 1.5 kilometers from the tunnel’s access, which is near the Khlong Khanan Chit coach station in the tambon Chan Thuek of the Pak Chong area, Nakhon Ratchasima, starts the decline.

Nakhon Ratchasima governor Chaiwat Chuenkosum points the location of victims inside the chart of the collapsed tunnel at the rescue site on Wednesday morning. (Screenshot from the Facebook page of the Public Relations Department's Nakhon Ratchasima office)

Chaiwat Chuenkosum, the government of Nakhon Ratchasima, indicates the location of the buried workers on the tunnel’s chart on Wednesday morning at the rescue site. He claimed that one of the patients was only one hundred and twenty-one meters away. ( Screenshot Facebook page Public Relations Department&nbsp, Nakhon Ratchasima office )