More than 15 Indian workers trapped after hydroelectric tunnel blast kills nine
Rescue teams are struggling to reach trapped workers as toxic gas and water slow operations, officials said.
- A methane explosion at the 500-megawatt Teesta Hydroelectric Project in Sikkim killed 20 workers on Monday, leaving five trapped at the Samardung-Jholungey site about 40 kilometers from Gangtok.
- The Teesta River basin features fragile rock formations riddled with fractures that trap ancient gases, making tunneling in this seismically active Himalayan region inherently hazardous.
- National Disaster Response Force personnel struggle to enter the tunnel due to toxic gas and water buildup, while most victims were migrant laborers from West Bengal and Punjab.
- Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang ordered a special investigation, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Rs 400,000 compensation for each victim's kin, stating, "I extend my deepest condolences to the bereaved families."
- Tamang described this as India's worst tunnel incident since the 2023 Silkyara collapse, where 41 men were trapped for 17 days, as scientists warn that climate-driven glacial retreat increases construction risks.
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AlKhaleej TodayTunnel collapse in India kills 20 as rescuers try to reach five workers still trapped
At least 20 workers were killed after a portion of an under-construction tunnel collapsed following a gas explosion in the Indian Himalayas, officials said.
20 dead and 5 missing in India tunnel collapse
Thirteen bodies have been recovered from a tunnel that was under-construction in the northeastern state of Sikkim At least 20 people are dead and five are missing after a gas explosion inside an under-construction tunnel at a hydropower project in India’s northeastern Himalayan state of Sikkim, officials said. State-owned NHPC, which builds and operates mainly...
(Hanoi=Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Jin-hyung = A tunnel collapsed due to an explosion of buried methane gas at a hydroelectric power plant construction site located in the Himalayas of Sikkim, northeastern India...
Explosion in tunnel at Indian hydropower project leaves at least 12 dead and 13 missing
A suspected gas explosion collapsed part of a tunnel under construction at a hydropower project in India’s northeastern Himalayan state of Sikkim, leaving at least 12 people dead and 13 missing, officials said Tuesday.
In northeastern India, at least eleven people died in an explosion in a tunnel construction site.The hydroelectric project, where the disaster occurred, is part of the government's ambitious energy offensive.
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