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.
Iran and Israel launched new missile strikes at each other on Wednesday as the air war between the two longtime enemies entered a sixth day despite a call from US President Donald Trump for Iran's unconditional surrender.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi maintained in a conversation with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday that a ceasefire with Pakistan after a four-day conflict was achieved through talks between the two militaries and not US mediation.
India's aviation safety watchdog said on Tuesday surveillance conducted on Air India's Boeing BA.N 787 fleet did not reveal any major safety concerns, days after one of its jets crashed, killing at least 271 people.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday repudiated Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's assessment that Iran has not been building a nuclear weapon, publicly contradicting his spy chief for the first time during his second term.
Several flights to the Indonesian resort island of Bali were cancelled or delayed and the airport in Maumere in East Nusa Tenggara province was closed due to the eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, officials said on Wednesday.
The U.S. military is deploying more fighter aircraft to the Middle East and extending the deployment of other warplanes, bolstering U.S. military forces in the region as the war between Israel and Iran rages, three U.S. officials said.
Israel and Iran attacked each other for a fifth straight day on Tuesday, and US President Donald Trump urged Iranians to evacuate Tehran, citing what he said was the country's rejection of a deal to curb nuclear weapons development.
Israeli tank shellfire killed at least 51 Palestinians on Tuesday as they awaited aid trucks in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the territory's health ministry said, adding that dozens of others were wounded.
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Israel-Iran air war enters sixth day, Trump calls for Iran's 'unconditional surrender'
India's Modi maintains there was no US mediation in ceasefire with Pakistan
India regulator says no 'major safety concerns' on Air India's Boeing 787 fleet
Trump contradicts his spy chief on Iran's nuclear programme
Many flights to Indonesia's Bali cancelled after volcano eruption
US moving fighter jets to Middle East as Israel-Iran war rages
Trump urges Tehran evacuation as Iran-Israel conflict enters fifth day
Israeli tank fire kills 51 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food
