3 bodies recovered from flooded Assam coal mine, 5 workers still trapped
The rescue operations entered their sixth day on Saturday.
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The bodies of three workers were retrieved from a 300-foot deep flooded coal mine in Assam’s Umrangso district on Saturday, on the sixth day of rescue operations, reported India Today. Five others are still trapped underground.
Those whose bodies were recovered on Saturday have been identified as 27-year-old Lijen Magar, a resident of Umrangso, 57-year-old Khushi Mohan Rai from Fakiragram and 37-year-old Sarat Goyari hailing from Thailapara, according to The Hindu.
At least four workers have died in the illegal rat-hole mine since Monday, when the miners accidentally breached a sub-surface water source, flooding the shaft and leaving them with little time to escape.
Army divers had on Wednesday recovered the body of Ganga Bahadur Srestho from Udayapur district of Nepal.
The rescue operations got a boost on Friday when water levels in the mine receded by about 23 feet. This came after three abandoned mines within 500 metres of the accident site were drained using pumps, reducing the height of the region’s water table.
Officials from the Indian Army, Navy, the National Disaster Response Force, the State Disaster Response Force, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Coal India and the district administration are collaborating on the rescue operation.
On Saturday, the rescuers were installing a heavy-pressure pump that was flown in by Coal India Limited from Maharashtra’s Nagpur on Thursday,...
