Rescuers are racing to reach 40 workers trapped inside a collapsed highway tunnel in India for five days, with emergency crew drilling about one-third of the way into the debris.
Drilling had penetrated through about 21 metres of debris, Devendra Singh Patwal, a disaster management officer, told Reuters.
They have to cover a total distance of nearly 60 meters.
Another officer with the rescue team inside the tunnel said the trapped men were doing fine.
The workers have been supplied with food, water and oxygen through a pipe and authorities have been in contact with them via walkie-talkies.
The 4.5 km tunnel in the northern state of Uttarakhand is part of the Char Dham highway, one of the most ambitious projects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
Authorities have not said what caused the tunnel to cave in on Sunday morning, but the region is prone to landslides, earthquakes and floods.
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