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Rescue Personnel Using Hooks, Ropes In Bid To Reach Miners Trapped in Meghalaya
With hooks, ropes, and a crane, rescuers today tried to reach out to five miners trapped for the last three days inside an illegal coal mine that was flooded after a dynamite explosion in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills District.
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Navy's Effort To Pull Out Trapped Meghalaya Miner's Body Hits Snag Again
The body of one of the 15 trapped miners, which was spotted last week, has disintegrated and slipped to bottom of the main shaft in course of the Navy's efforts to pull it out of the flooded mine, officials said Wednesday.
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Underwater Robotics Team From Chennai Joins Meghalaya Mine Rescue Ops
A team sent by a Chennai-based company that specialises in submersible robotic inspections joined the operation to rescue the 15 miners trapped for a month now, inside a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya.
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Appropriate Steps Taken To Rescue 15 Trapped Miners: Centre To Top Court
The Centre informed the Supreme Court today that all appropriate steps were being taken to rescue 15 miners trapped since December 13 in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya and Indian Navy has deployed remotely operated underwater vehicle in the operation there
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Hopes Now Pinned On Huge Pump On Concrete Platform Near "Rat-Hole" Mine
Rescuers trying to reach a group of miners trapped in the remote and illegal "rat-hole" coal mine in Meghalaya are struggling to pump out water from the 370-foot-deep pit, further dimming their chances of survival more than three weeks into their ordeal.
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Meghalaya Miners' Rescue Operation: Navy Divers Reach The Bottom Of The Mine
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.
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Situation Grim As Rescue Ops For Meghalaya Miners Enters Day 14: Updates
The search and rescue operations to look for 15 miners trapped since December 13 at a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya stopped on Tuesday. Two weeks after they were trapped in an illegal mine there are no signs that any of the 15 miners are still alive.
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"Getting High-Power Pumps Soon": Meghalaya Chief Minister On Stuck Miners
With 15 miners stuck in a flooded "rat-hole" coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills for nearly two weeks, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma admitted on Wednesday that they had to halt operations to pump out water from the mine due to the non-availability of high-power pumps.
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Chinese Rescuers Slowly Dig Down To Rescue 4 Trapped Miners
Rescuers have dropped provisions to four Chinese mine workers trapped for 10 days in a wrecked gypsum mine and are slowly drilling a route to save them, state media said today.
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Intense Ukraine Shelling Traps Hundreds of Miners
Intense fighting erupted around east Ukraine's main rebel-held city on Sunday that wrecked a power station and briefly trapped nearly 400 coal miners in one of Europe's largest pits.
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Nearly 400 Miners Trapped in East Ukraine: Rebels
Pro-Russian rebels said on Sunday that nearly 400 Ukrainian miners were trapped in a coal pit that lost power when shell hit an regional electric substation.
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Hope runs out for Meghalaya's trapped 'rat-hole' miners
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...
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Gas leak kills 20 in latest China mine accident
Hundreds of rescuers took turns descending into an illegally operated coal mine Thursday to search for 23 Chinese miners trapped by a gas leak that killed 20 others, in the country's second deadly mining accident in less than a week.
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Robot breakdown delays rescue of trapped New Zealand miners
The bid to rescue 29 New Zealand coal miners trapped underground by a massive gas explosion for nearly five days hit new problems on Tuesday as a mechanical robot broke down inside a tunnel and hard rock layers slowed progress on gas testing.Police superintendent Gary Knowles said the army robot broke down after it was affected by water, "and can n...
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Explosion in Chinese coal mine kills 21
Rescuers battled dangerous levels of gas, tons of coal dust and the risk of falling rocks as they worked to free 16 miners trapped by an explosion at a mine in central China early Saturday. Twenty-one miners were confirmed killed.The blast happened as the world still was celebrating Chile's dramatically successful rescue of 33 miners trapped more t...
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Rescue Personnel Using Hooks, Ropes In Bid To Reach Miners Trapped in Meghalaya
With hooks, ropes, and a crane, rescuers today tried to reach out to five miners trapped for the last three days inside an illegal coal mine that was flooded after a dynamite explosion in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills District.
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Navy's Effort To Pull Out Trapped Meghalaya Miner's Body Hits Snag Again
The body of one of the 15 trapped miners, which was spotted last week, has disintegrated and slipped to bottom of the main shaft in course of the Navy's efforts to pull it out of the flooded mine, officials said Wednesday.
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Underwater Robotics Team From Chennai Joins Meghalaya Mine Rescue Ops
A team sent by a Chennai-based company that specialises in submersible robotic inspections joined the operation to rescue the 15 miners trapped for a month now, inside a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya.
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Appropriate Steps Taken To Rescue 15 Trapped Miners: Centre To Top Court
The Centre informed the Supreme Court today that all appropriate steps were being taken to rescue 15 miners trapped since December 13 in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya and Indian Navy has deployed remotely operated underwater vehicle in the operation there
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Hopes Now Pinned On Huge Pump On Concrete Platform Near "Rat-Hole" Mine
Rescuers trying to reach a group of miners trapped in the remote and illegal "rat-hole" coal mine in Meghalaya are struggling to pump out water from the 370-foot-deep pit, further dimming their chances of survival more than three weeks into their ordeal.
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Meghalaya Miners' Rescue Operation: Navy Divers Reach The Bottom Of The Mine
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.
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Situation Grim As Rescue Ops For Meghalaya Miners Enters Day 14: Updates
The search and rescue operations to look for 15 miners trapped since December 13 at a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya stopped on Tuesday. Two weeks after they were trapped in an illegal mine there are no signs that any of the 15 miners are still alive.
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"Getting High-Power Pumps Soon": Meghalaya Chief Minister On Stuck Miners
With 15 miners stuck in a flooded "rat-hole" coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills for nearly two weeks, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma admitted on Wednesday that they had to halt operations to pump out water from the mine due to the non-availability of high-power pumps.
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Chinese Rescuers Slowly Dig Down To Rescue 4 Trapped Miners
Rescuers have dropped provisions to four Chinese mine workers trapped for 10 days in a wrecked gypsum mine and are slowly drilling a route to save them, state media said today.
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Intense Ukraine Shelling Traps Hundreds of Miners
Intense fighting erupted around east Ukraine's main rebel-held city on Sunday that wrecked a power station and briefly trapped nearly 400 coal miners in one of Europe's largest pits.
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Nearly 400 Miners Trapped in East Ukraine: Rebels
Pro-Russian rebels said on Sunday that nearly 400 Ukrainian miners were trapped in a coal pit that lost power when shell hit an regional electric substation.
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Hope runs out for Meghalaya's trapped 'rat-hole' miners
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...
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Gas leak kills 20 in latest China mine accident
Hundreds of rescuers took turns descending into an illegally operated coal mine Thursday to search for 23 Chinese miners trapped by a gas leak that killed 20 others, in the country's second deadly mining accident in less than a week.
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Robot breakdown delays rescue of trapped New Zealand miners
The bid to rescue 29 New Zealand coal miners trapped underground by a massive gas explosion for nearly five days hit new problems on Tuesday as a mechanical robot broke down inside a tunnel and hard rock layers slowed progress on gas testing.Police superintendent Gary Knowles said the army robot broke down after it was affected by water, "and can n...
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Explosion in Chinese coal mine kills 21
Rescuers battled dangerous levels of gas, tons of coal dust and the risk of falling rocks as they worked to free 16 miners trapped by an explosion at a mine in central China early Saturday. Twenty-one miners were confirmed killed.The blast happened as the world still was celebrating Chile's dramatically successful rescue of 33 miners trapped more t...
