The Directorate-General of Fire Department (DGFD) report on the causes of the sinking of the “Jabriya” tunnel on the Maghreb highway revealed that the water drainage openings inside the tunnel were completely blocked during the Sunday rains for unknown reasons, pointing out that the firefighting teams used long hoses to draw water into the third basement of the tunnel and the opening of the closed drainage holes.
The report, a copy of which the Fire Department has submitted to the Ministry of Works, stated that it took the firefighters more than 10 hours to suck the water and open the drainage outlets, due to the large amounts of water that flooded the tunnel, reports Al-Jarida daily.
This is in addition, the emergency team of the Public Authority for Roads and Land Transport revealed that there was a failure by the contractor to fulfill his contractual obligations, which led to the sinking of the Ghazali, Jabriya, and Kairouan tunnels.
The authority demanded that the contract with the contractor be terminated and that the contractor bear all the financial consequences arising from this procedure, calling for notifying the competent authorities of the contractor’s responsibility to bear all costs and the value of losses incurred by public and private property.
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