Assam Coal Mine Disaster: 26 Hours On, Several Miners Trapped, NDRF, Army Start Rescue Ops

Around 42 workers went inside the ill-fated illegal rat hole coal mine named Asom Quarry in Kalamati in Umrangso, Dima Hasao district of Assam.

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.

Here is what happened since 6 AM yesterday:

Around 42 workers went inside the ill-fated illegal rat hole coal mine named Asom Quarry in Kalamati in Umrangso, Dima Hasao district of Assam.

They went in at 6 AM. Within two hours, water from a nearby unused coal mine gushed in trapping the miners.

By 8 AM, 300 feet below, all that the miners could see is water and they were trapped.

Somehow, few of them managed to come out alive from the jaws of death but around 15 were not so lucky.

Assam minister for Mines, Kaushik Rai has been at the site since last night and is now overseeing the rescue operation. Specialist divers, engineer task force with equipemnt and medical team, support staff from Army and Assam Rifles have joined the rescue operations.

The big question still remains, will the trapped miners walk out alive? Our prayers are with the trapped miners and their families.

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