Dec 30, 2018 10:18:20 (IST)
- The operation to rescue 15 people, trapped in a 320-foot-deep coal mine at Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills, has entered its seventeenth day.
- Now equipped with ten high-powered pumps that are required to pump out the water from the flooded mine, the authorities are preparing for the final push of the rescue operation.
- A team of divers from the navy airlifted from Vishakhapatnam will be pressed into action today to locate the miners.