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Not only in Japan! Also in Turkey some contractor bores into a train tunnel with geological survey drill

    Santiago Morales
    By Santiago Morales

    Unbelievable. Building contractors over the ground keep boring into the tunnels underneath for "geological surveys".

    It happened several years ago in Japan when somoone drilled into a train tunnel for "geological survey". And a train hit it!

    https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/13060489

    Now exact same happened in Turkey!

    Someone there also bored a contractor into a metro tunnel. Luckily the drill damaged the electricity supply to train preventing a major accident.

    Here in the video see the drill still boring away in the rails.

    I learned about this in Turkish tunnel group:

    https://tunnelcontact.com/discussion/view/54571/sordaj-delgisi-istanbul-havaalani-tunelinin-tavanini-deldi

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