Russian TASS agency say yesterday at 10:30 under construction Zheleznitsa Tunnel collapsed. 3 Workers injured.
Zheleznitsa Tunnel is on the new Struma road. The length is 2.2 km after completion. Contract value 94.78 million Euro without VAT. European Tenders database say contractor is Bulgarian consortium of DZZD AM Struma Tunnel 2018 (GP Group AD, Global Construction Ltd.VIA Plan EOOD). Tunnelling experience of any of these companies is not known by me.
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:76052-2019:TEXT:EN:HTML
Struma Motorway under construction runs from Bulgaria's capital Sofia to Kulata just before the Greece border. It is part of European Corridor running from Miskolc in Hungary to Salonika in Greece.
On Struma motorway there are two tunnels. Zheleznitsa Tunnel is under construction. And Kresna Gorge Tunnel which has problematic design and construction history of its own.
Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) − the European public procurement journal. 76052-2019 - Bulgaria-Sofia: Motorway construction works
This news English better than my English.
I think tunnel is drill and blast method tunnelling.
Bulgaria: Earlier today, a rock mass collapsed during the construction of the Zheleznitsa tunnel. The collapse occurred in the left pipe at the southern exit of the tunnel.
4 hours buried under rocks were 3 workers injured Zheleznitsa Tunnel collapse. 1 critical condition.
https://www.bnr.bg/en/post/101299042/three-workers-buried-under-collapsed-tunnel-zheleznitsa-rescued
After a 4-hour rescue operation the three workers buried under the collapsed tunnel Zheleznitsa have been taken out alive, Minister of Health Kiril Ananiev announced. At around 1.40 AM one of the tubes of the tunnel, which is part of Struma...
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В Болгарии обрушился строящийся тоннель
tass.ruМинистр здравоохранения страны Кирил Ананиев сообщил, что пострадали три человека