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Drilling Rig Bored Through an Underground Tunnel in Istanbul

File Photo: Engineers perform the last checks on escalators of a station of Marmaray, a subway which links Europe with Asia some 60 metres below the Bosphorus Strait, in Istanbul October 29, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Acquire Licensing Rights
File Photo: Engineers perform the last checks on escalators of a station of Marmaray, a subway which links Europe with Asia some 60 metres below the Bosphorus Strait, in Istanbul October 29, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Acquire Licensing Rights
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Drilling Rig Bored Through an Underground Tunnel in Istanbul

File Photo: Engineers perform the last checks on escalators of a station of Marmaray, a subway which links Europe with Asia some 60 metres below the Bosphorus Strait, in Istanbul October 29, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Acquire Licensing Rights
File Photo: Engineers perform the last checks on escalators of a station of Marmaray, a subway which links Europe with Asia some 60 metres below the Bosphorus Strait, in Istanbul October 29, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Acquire Licensing Rights

A drilling machine working near an underground line connecting Istanbul's central Mecidiyekoy district to the city's main airport accidentally bored through the ceiling of the metro tunnel and the rails, a video shared by Sozcu TV broadcaster showed on Saturday.

The video showed the drilling machine in operation and the damage it had done to the tunnel and the rails, Reuters reported.

The drill pierced through ceiling of the tunnel and went all the way down to the rails of the metro tracks, it showed.

A spokesperson for the Transport Ministry said repairs to the tunnel after the incident had been completed.

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China Launches Shenzhou-20 Mission to Chinese Space Station

The Shenzhou-20 space mission carried by the Long March 2F rocket launches at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, China, 24 April 2025. EPA/ANDRES MARTINEZ CASARES
The Shenzhou-20 space mission carried by the Long March 2F rocket launches at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, China, 24 April 2025. EPA/ANDRES MARTINEZ CASARES
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China Launches Shenzhou-20 Mission to Chinese Space Station

The Shenzhou-20 space mission carried by the Long March 2F rocket launches at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, China, 24 April 2025. EPA/ANDRES MARTINEZ CASARES
The Shenzhou-20 space mission carried by the Long March 2F rocket launches at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, China, 24 April 2025. EPA/ANDRES MARTINEZ CASARES

China sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited space station on Thursday, in its 15th crewed spaceflight and the 20th overall in the Shenzhou program that started over three decades ago.
The spacecraft Shenzhou-20 and the crew lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 5:17 p.m. (0917 GMT), according to state broadcaster CCTV.
According to Reuters, state news agency Xinhua reported soon afterwards that the launch was successful.
The launch comes as China's advances in lunar and space exploration are drawing in more countries.
Pakistan is carrying out a preliminary selection of astronauts, one of whom will eventually be sent to space on a future Shenzhou spaceflight and become the first foreign astronaut to enter China's Tiangong space station.