8 years ago
New Delhi:
As operation to rescue 15 trapped miners continue at the 370-foot-deep illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district, one of the survivor's said on Saturday there is no way the trapped miners will come out alive.
Navy divers reached the bottom of the mine on Monday in search for survivors, officials said.
Sahib Ali from Assam's Chirang district is one of the five men who narrowly escaped the flooding coal mine a fortnight ago.
A joint team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the Navy and the Odisha Fire Service is running the rescue operation.
Coal India pumps have reached the accident site and pumping of water from one of the adjacent shaft would be tried out in the afternoon.
