Two days after lone body pulled out, another detected in Meghalaya coal mine
During their search operation, the Navy team also stumbled on tell-tale signs like spades, a wooden cart and then located the dead miner inside the mine.
During their search operation, the Navy team also stumbled on tell-tale signs like spades, a wooden cart and then located the dead miner inside the mine.
Just days after the Indian Navy spotted the body of one of the trapped miners, the navy suspended the rescue mission late on Sunday citing “too much disintegration”.
The mining disaster in Meghalaya tells us that conservation of environment must also be humane
Mishra has taken an incredibly powerful stand, drawing attention of people towards the serious issue that hasn't got the attention it deserved.
Bring them out, dead or alive, Supreme Court tells Meghalaya government
It brings cold comfort to the affected families to be informed that the Navy divers have merely come across a wooden structure, coal (quite obviously), and a rat-hole, but no people inside the 370-feet-deep and flooded colliery.
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescuers and Odisha firefighters on Tuesday began dewatering the coal mine in their bid to rescue 15 coal miners trapped in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, an official said.
The plane carrying high-power pumps took off from Odisha for Guwahati in Assam, from where the equipment will be taken to the rat-hole mine in Meghalaya.
Gandhi took a dig at PM Modi for not offering the necessary help to rescue the miners trapped in a 370-foot-deep illegal coal mine in Ksan area of Lumthari village for the past two weeks.
