Rescuers build embankments to pump out water from a flooded tunnel in Zhuhai city in south China’s Guangdong province (Chinatopix via AP)Divers have been dispatched in the search for 14 workers missing since water flooded a tunnel under construction in southern China three days ago, authorities have said. Search teams have been slowly advancing into the tunnel as water is pumped out. An abnormal noise was heard and bits of material started falling off on one side of the two-tube tunnel. An evacuation was ordered but water rushed in and flowed through a connection into the other tube of the tunnel, trapping 14 workers on that side. Zhuhai is a coastal city in Guangdong province and near Macao at the mouth of the Pearl River delta.

Source: Irish Independent July 18, 2021 12:56 UTC