The disturbing scale of rainfall has come days ahead of Cyclone Michaung, which will make a landfall on the northern districts of Tamil Nadu, including Chennai, during the first week of December.
MIOT hospital issued an official statement stating that Vijayakanth's health condition has been unstable due to which he was put under pulmonary treatment and ventilator support.
It has been reported that the brewing system over the Bay of Bengal would intensify into a depression and would eventually become a cyclone by December 2.
It is certain that the rat miners have become the gamechangers in this rescue mission as they have successfully drilled through rocky debris to build a path to the trapped workers to breath fresh air.
In what has become a light at the end of the tunnel, the battle for rescuing the 41 trapped workers in an Uttarakhand tunnel has attained a major breakthrough as the rescuers are getting very close to the trapped men.
International tunnelling expert Arnold Dix said, "I will just say that I have always promised that they would be home by Christmas. If we rush, we can cause another problem in there".
