Meghalaya Mine Accident

More than three weeks after an illegal coal pit in Meghalaya's East Jaintia district was flooded trapping five miners, rescuers on Friday fished out another body from the 152-metre-deep mine, an official said.

The Meghalaya government has ordered for a magisterial inquiry into the mining accident where at least five labourers are trapped for the last four days inside an illegal coal mine that was flooded after a dynamite explosion in Meghalaya's East Jaint

As operation to rescue 15 trapped miners continue at the 370-foot-deep illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district, a survivor of the December 13 accident said on Saturday there is no way the trapped miners will come out alive.

A team of 11 naval divers will join the mission to rescue over 15 people, trapped in a 320-foot-deep mine at Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills for 16 days, early this morning. The divers as well as high-powered pumps required to drain the pit have already reached the site.

Nearly two weeks have passed since a freak accident trapped 15 miners in a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills, and the authorities have all but given up hope of rescuing anybody alive. According to sources, rescue operations have now been suspended for want of high-powered pumps to flush water out of the pit.

The man, who was arrested in connection with the mine mishap in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district a fortnight ago, has admitted that he was the owner of the 370-foot-deep illegal quarry, police said Sunday.

When 22-year-old Sayeb Ali entered a deep coal mine in Meghalaya in the early hours of December 13, he was worried. He had seen and reported the seepage in the mine a couple of days earlier to the labourers' "sardar". As he left the mine with his load of coal, he heard the gush of water and knew the seepage had become a deadly flood. He is the lone...

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team on Friday called off the operation to rescue 15 miners trapped in a flooded coal pit in Meghalaya since July 6, an official said. The miners got trapped in a mine in South Garo Hills district last week on Thursday after they accidentally punctured the wall of an abandoned mine, filling their mine wit...

More than three weeks after an illegal coal pit in Meghalaya's East Jaintia district was flooded trapping five miners, rescuers on Friday fished out another body from the 152-metre-deep mine, an official said.

The Meghalaya government has ordered for a magisterial inquiry into the mining accident where at least five labourers are trapped for the last four days inside an illegal coal mine that was flooded after a dynamite explosion in Meghalaya's East Jaint

As operation to rescue 15 trapped miners continue at the 370-foot-deep illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district, a survivor of the December 13 accident said on Saturday there is no way the trapped miners will come out alive.

A team of 11 naval divers will join the mission to rescue over 15 people, trapped in a 320-foot-deep mine at Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills for 16 days, early this morning. The divers as well as high-powered pumps required to drain the pit have already reached the site.

Nearly two weeks have passed since a freak accident trapped 15 miners in a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills, and the authorities have all but given up hope of rescuing anybody alive. According to sources, rescue operations have now been suspended for want of high-powered pumps to flush water out of the pit.

The man, who was arrested in connection with the mine mishap in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district a fortnight ago, has admitted that he was the owner of the 370-foot-deep illegal quarry, police said Sunday.

When 22-year-old Sayeb Ali entered a deep coal mine in Meghalaya in the early hours of December 13, he was worried. He had seen and reported the seepage in the mine a couple of days earlier to the labourers' "sardar". As he left the mine with his load of coal, he heard the gush of water and knew the seepage had become a deadly flood. He is the lone...

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team on Friday called off the operation to rescue 15 miners trapped in a flooded coal pit in Meghalaya since July 6, an official said. The miners got trapped in a mine in South Garo Hills district last week on Thursday after they accidentally punctured the wall of an abandoned mine, filling their mine wit...