From Our Special Desk: Eastern Chronicle 24×7, The 8th January,2025.
Exclusive: A Dead body of miner was recovered from the Flooded Coal mine in a remote district of Northeastern Indian State of Assam on Wednesday, in two days search for 9 men trapped under the ground.
The Coal mine, which is more than 300 feet (91.45 meter) Deep with multiple underground tunnels, is thought to have Flooded by underground water bodies or water channels,after miners hit a water source, with their spade to collect Coal from the mines, according to the Official sources.
The extent of flooding hampered rescue works yesterday, but divers entered again today into the mines and able to retrieve a Dead Body,, among the 9 miners.
“We didn’t see the Body, it was completely Dark inside, we felt it’s a Body, touching & using our hands in deep mines under the Water “- ohe of the Diver, told to News Agency.
Indian Army deployed Divers, helicopter, crane and other rescue apparatus to boost the rescue operation in remotely Dima Hasao District.
“It is very Difficult to say that, how long the Rescue operation will going on, & we have been told that, there are so many Rat Holes in this mine”. According to a NDRF Commandant, the federal agency, that is responsible for such operations. Rat Holes mines named, because their tunnels are just big enough for workers to get through. These types of Coalmines banned in northeastern states, because a large numbers of fatalities and damages caused environment disorders.
In last 2019, at least 15 miners were buried, while working in an illegal rat-hole mine in neighbouring state Meghalaya, after is was under flooded by nearby River water.
Such type of Coal-mining Disasters in remote Northeastern States of India are not an uncommon issues, but till time Northeastern States are not in very much organised ways to prepared, respond, & rescue in such Disastrous events with their Disaster Management Systems and Abilities.
