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Lebanese Army
28-04-2025
- General
- Lebanese Army
Graduation Ceremony for Military Personnel Completing the "Marine Commando Initiation Course /22/", "Diving Instructor", and "Basic Diving" Courses at Milad Al Naddaf Barracks
Thursday, 24 April 2025 A graduation ceremony was held this morning at Milad Al Naddaf Barracks in Amchit for military personnel who completed the "Marine Commando Initiation Course /22/", named after the martyr Corporal Mahmoud Ali Ahmed, as well as the "Diving Instructor" and "Basic Diving" courses. The ceremony was presided over by the Commander of the Marine Commandos, representing the Lebanese Army Commander in Chief, General Rodolphe Haykal, and attended by several officers. During this occasion, Brigadier General Bassam Al Ayyoubi, the commander of the regiment, placed a wreath of flowers at the monument of the regiment's martyrs and delivered a speech in which he stated: "All these skills have been placed in your hands so that you may advance both personally and professionally, achieve your career aspirations, and be role models for your comrades in dedication and the constant pursuit of excellence. Therefore, hold on to what you have learned and strive to benefit from it as much as possible." At the end of the ceremony, certificates were distributed to the graduates.
New York Times
24-02-2025
- General
- New York Times
Hopes Fade for Workers Trapped for Days in Tunnel in India
Indian officials have warned that the chances of survival for eight people believed to have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel for several days are remote, after a rush of silt and water caused the ceiling to cave in over the weekend. The group was working on the Srisailam Left Bank Canal tunnel project in the southern Indian state of Telangana, a decades-long effort to build one of the world's longest irrigation tunnels, which has been plagued by a series of delays since construction began in 2005. The workers were about nine miles inside the tunnel on Saturday morning when the roof collapsed after a rush of silt and water, according to local officials and news reports. Some escaped, but eight were left trapped behind a tunnel-boring machine that blocked their exit. 'Water gushed in and the roof caved in,' Manoj Gaur, the chairman of Jaiprakash Associates, the Indian construction company that is co-managing the project, said in an interview. 'The tunnel is a big tunnel with a diameter of more than 10 meters. Imagine most of that height being filled with water, stone and mud.' Rescuers have not been able to communicate with the workers since the accident, and their conditions were unclear on Monday. Nine agencies, including the Indian Army and Marine Commandos, are working together on rescue efforts. Among them are members of a team that led a rescue effort in 2023 to save 41 workers after they were trapped for 17 days in a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand, a northern Indian state. Activists and environmentalists had long warned that the multibillion-dollar road-widening project would destabilize the mountainous territory, and said it ultimately caused a landslide that led to the disaster. Jupally Krishna Rao, a Telangana state minister who was helping to oversee the rescue efforts, said the odds were dwindling that the victims in this weekend's tunnel collapse would be found alive. 'I can't predict the chances of survival, but the chances are not very good,' Mr. Krishna Rao told Indian news outlets. 'But even if there is the slightest chance, we will try to save them.' By Monday morning, rescuers were reported to have reached the tunnel boring machine blocking the area. But their efforts were hampered by severe debris and silt buildup, which in some places was reportedly six to seven feet high.
