Assam Coal Mine Disaster: 3 Miners Feared Dead
First Published: 7th January, 2025 11:40 IST
Anxious family members, co-workers waiting, praying for the safe return of all those trapped inside.
Three of the over 15 miners trapped inside the ill-fated are feared dead. Personnel present at the site who are involved in the rescue operations have said that helmets and slippers could be seen floating inside the coal mine. An official confirmation about the deaths is awaited.
Meanwhile, the first team of 5 NDRF and Army personnel who had entered the mine today at around 8:45 AM came out after about 40 minutes after doing the initial assessment of the mine.
Over 15 miners are trapped for over 26 hours now inside the ill-fated rat hole coal mine in 3 Kilo, Kalamati, Umrangso in Dima Hasao district of Assam.
The first team of NDRF, Army deep divers entered the mine a little before 9 AM today, 24 hours since the miners were trapped yesterday.
The miners are trapped 300 feet below inside the rat hole coal mine since 8 am yesterday. Rescue operations have begun. NDRF and Army deep divers have already entered the flooded coal mine. The rescue operations began just a little before 9am. According to news coming in, Navy divers have also been called in.
Anxious family members, co-workers waiting, praying for the safe return of all those trapped inside.
Here are the names of some of the miners who are stuck inside the mine — Ganga Bahadur Shreth, a resident of Rampur in Nepal’s Udaypur district, Krishna Pada Sarkar hailing from Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal, Hussain Ali, Jakir Hussain and Mustafa Sheikh of Assam’s Darrang district in Assam, Sarpa Barman and Khushi Mohan Rai of Kokrajhar district in Assam, Lijan Magar of Dima Hasao district and Sarat Goyary, a resident of Sonitpur district in Assam.
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