The Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has recovered a body of an unknown person from a jungle near a closed open cast coal mine in Kalipahari area, under Asansol South police station here this morning.
Andal police have recovered the body of an unidentified person from Jambadh open cast coal mine in Banbahal area last night. The unidentified body has been sent to Asansol District Hospital for post-mortem.
A coal mine of the Eastern Coalfields Limited of Coal India, operating 200 metres below the surface, has topped the country in question of safer mining and has been awarded by the Director General of Mines Safety.
Members of Krishi Jomi Jiban Jibika Raksha Committee started an agitation against forcible land grabbing by the land mafia and have set on fire a makeshift thatched office of the land syndicate at Dakshinkhanda in Andal Police Station area of West Burdwan district.
Land owners have threatened to launch a major agitation and movement against the land acquisition of central public sector Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) at Nituria Block of Purulia district for its upcoming open cast coal mines project.
It bears recall that at the Glasgow climate summit last November, all countries, including India, had agreed to the procedure of coal phase-down chiefly to curb global emissions and warming. Green activists wonder whether the detailed project report and the assessment report on the environmental impact have been prepared. They say work on the project has started without such crucial assessments.
According to preliminary data, there were no survivors in the Listvyazhnaya mine, TASS reported, adding that most of the bodies remain underground and will be raised to surface when temperature and methane concentration allow.
A total of 42 miners were working in the mine when the accident took place at 1:15 p.m.
The incident took place on Sunday night when four coal pilferers were extracting coal from the mine, locals said.
At least three others were injured after cave-in at the abandoned coal mine pit that had taken the shape of a lake after monsoon rains over the last five years as the water was not pumped out
