Model Arabella Chi was dragged from her car and attacked during a robbery, according to a report in Metro. The 32-year-old was travelling back from Ibiza to Barcelona with her father Paul when the attack took place. The robbers slashed the tyres of her car before the horrifying ordeal unfolded, the outlet further said. The police later told Ms Chi that she was targeted by an organised crime group. The incident comes weeks after the parents of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz were kidnapped on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

“Shortly after driving off the ferry, she had car issues with the two back wheels. Her dad realised both tyres had been slashed,” The Sun quoted people close to the model as saying.

“With only one spare, they decided Arabella would stay with the car as it was packed full of suitcases and her dad should get an Uber to go and get help,” the outlet added.

The gang targeted the car after noticing that Ms Arabella was alone inside it.

Ms Chi was “absolutely terrified” but she “screamed a fought back”, Metro said in its report.

The attackers were said to have got away with Ms Chi’s handbag, purse and passports, but she was able to save her phone.

The outlet also said that the thieves used high-tech device to unlock the model’s car. After the attackers left, Ms Chi called her father, who reached the spot with Spanish police officers.

Meanwhile, Ms Diaz’s father was released by ELN guerrilla group on Thursday, nearly two weeks after he was kidnapped. Luis Manuel Diaz told reporters that he went through a “very difficult” time, surviving “almost 12 days without sleep”.

His wife Cilenis Marulanda, who was taken by the same ELN kidnappers on October 28, was rescued hours later.

About 40 workers are trapped inside a tunnel after the under construction structure collapsed in Uttarakhand yesterday, prompting the authorities to launch a mega search and rescue operation.

Rescue workers said that the workers trapped for over 24 are safe and a communication has been established with them

Officials say they are hopeful of rescuing the workers by this evening.

Search and Rescue Operation

About 160 rescue workers are trying to reach the trapped labourers with the help of drilling equipment and excavators.

The rescue operation is being conducted by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Relief Force (SDRF) and the police.

An escape passage is being created to reach the trapped workers, and the distance to reach them is approximately 60 meters. Officials said that 20 metres of slab blocking the wide tunnel has been removed so far, and about 35 metres is yet to be cleared.

Attempts are being made to stabilise the constantly falling loose debris which is delaying the workers’ rescue, they said.

Trapped Workers Safe

All 40 workers are safe and the rescue team was able to contact them early this morning through walkie-talkie.

Initial contact was made via a note on a scrap of paper, but later rescuers managed to connect using radio handsets.

Two water pipelines are being used by the officials for food and oxygen supply. “They have been sent food items through one pipeline, and additional oxygen is being supplied to them through the second pipeline,” officials said. 

A Disaster response official said that while the men were trapped, they have a buffer of around 400 metres to walk and breathe.

The workers are from Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, officials said.

The Collapse

The tunnel is meant to connect Silkyara to Dandalgaon in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi. It is being built under the Char Dham Road Project and aims to reduce the journey from Uttarkashi to Yamunotri Dham by 26 kilometres.

A senior NDRF official said that investigation is on to ascertain the exact reaon for the collapse. He said that the plaster has been done for only 200 meters from the starting point of the tunnel, and not beyond that -which could have led to the collapse.

“There are 40 people inside and all of them are safe. Plaster has been done for 200 meters from the starting point of the tunnel but there is no plaster beyond that, hence it has suddenly subsided,” news agency quoted Karamveer Singh, NDRF Assistant Commander, as saying.

A massive fire broke out at a building in Hyderabad on Monday, killing at least nine people, the police said.

The fire started from the ground floor of the multi-storeyed apartment complex, where some drums containing chemicals were stored, and then spread to other floors.

Over 20 people have so far been evacuated from the building, a senior Fire Department official told reporters.

Most of the victims were staying on the first and second floors as tenants.

The people living on the third and fourth floors sustained minor injuries.

The building owner has been identified as Ramesh Jaiswal and is currently on the run. He was using the ground floor as a godown for oil drums and cans.

Meanwhile, during the rescue operation, firefighters were seen saving a child and a woman trapped in the building. 

In a video tweeted by the news agency ANI, the rescue team can be seen pulling the child and the woman out of a window from the first floor of the building using a temporary staircase.

#WATCH | Daring rescue of a child and woman amid massive fire in a storage godown located in an apartment complex in Bazarghat, Nampally of Hyderabad pic.twitter.com/Z2F1JAL8wa

— ANI (@ANI) November 13, 2023

The clip also shows firefighters trying to douse the fire using water cannon.