One trapped miners body detected in illegal rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya


Devdiscourse News Desk | Newdelhi/Shillong | Updated: 17-01-2019 10:53 IST | Created: 17-01-2019 10:06 IST
One trapped miners body detected in illegal rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya
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Navy divers Thursday found a body in an illegal rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills where 15 miners were trapped since December 13, officials said. "One body detected by Indian Navy divers using underwater ROV at a depth of approx 160 feet and 210 feet inside a rat-hole mine," a Navy spokesperson said in a statement. The body has been brought up to the mouth of the rat-hole mine and will be extracted out of it under the supervision of doctors, the officials said, adding the rescue operations were going on.

The district authorities, however, are tight-lipped on the development. On December 13, water from nearby Lytein River flooded a network of tunnels in the 370-foot-deep coal mine in Lumthari village of East Jaintia Hills, trapping 15 men and prompting a multiple-agency rescue attempt. In the Khloo-Ryngksan area, where the ill-fated mine is located at the western side of a small hillock, the Lytein river crisscrosses the valley for over 2 km.

(With inputs from agencies.)

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