Beijing time:2021-07-18 12:27
[New Tang Dynasty Beijing time July 18, 2021]The Chinese Communist Party officially notified the rescue situation in the Shijingshan Tunnel in Zhuhai City on July 17. As of 9 am that day, 14 construction workers have been trapped for more than 50 hours, but no contact has been made yet.
The Shijingshan Tunnel in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province suffered a flooding accident in the early morning of the 15th, causing 14 construction personnel to be trapped and lost contact. The authorities have dispatched more than 1,000 rescuers to rescue, but the rescue progress is slow.
Zhuhai Deputy Mayor Zhang Yisheng said at a press conference on the 17th that as of 9 a.m. that day, the accumulated water in the tunnel had dropped by about 8 meters, and the rescue operation had advanced by about 491.97 meters, and the 14 trapped people were still 668.03 meters away. .
However, after more than 50 hours of search and rescue, it is still impossible to get in touch with the trapped persons.
Since the early morning of the 17th, rescue operations have switched to “long suction” drain trucks in series relay drainage to intensify drainage.
Many people were trapped in this flooding accident, and it continues to receive attention from the outside world. A netizen with more than 60 years of tunnel construction experience said that according to his experience, most of the 14 people trapped have died.
(Reporter Luo Tingting Comprehensive Report / Chief Editor: Zhu Xinrui)
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