Meghalaya mine tragedy: Navy teams continue ops to recover trapped miners

Days after one body was recovered from the flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills where 5 miners have been trapped since May 30, a 12-member Indian Navy diving team is continuing with its operations to recover the other four bodies. According to some sources, another body is in sight but efforts to retrieve […]

Meghalaya: Breakthrough in Sutnga coal mine rescue ops; body of one miner recovered

With little breakthrough in the ongoing multi-agency search and rescue operation at Krem Ule in Meghalaya’s Sutnga area, a body of one of the missing miners has been recovered from the ill-fated coal mine site on Wednesday. The victims body was brought out of the mine site by rescue workers who have been working at […]

Meghalaya mine tragedy: CM Conrad Sangma assures action against illegal coal mining

Under pressure from the opposition, the Meghalaya government on Friday agreed to examine the demand for an enquiry into instances of illegal coal mining in the state despite a ban in place. Even after 3 days, there is still no trace of the trapped laborers in the tragedy-hit coal mine in the Sutnga area of […]

Miners still trapped in Meghalaya coal mine, heavy rain hampers rescue efforts

Heavy rainfall on Tuesday hampered operations to rescue at least five miners trapped for two days deep inside an illegal rat-hole coal pit in Meghalayas East Jaintia Hills district, officials said. The district administration has identified five miners four from Assam and one from Tripura who were trapped at the coal pit in the remote […]

Five labourers from Assam, Tripura feared trapped in Meghalaya coal mine

Despite a ban by the National Green tribunal, there seems to be no end to rat hole mining in Meghalaya. Five labourers, four from Assam and 1 from Tripura were feared trapped after a dynamite blast led to the flooding of a coal mine in East Jaintia Hills. The mishap took place at a remote […]

Meghalaya: BJP legislator AL Hek backs HM Lahkmen Rymbui over mining incident

At a time when the Meghalaya BJP is demanding the resignation of state home minister Lahkmen Rymbui, the home minister has found support from an unlikely side in the form of state health minister AL Hek, who is also a prominent BJP leader in the state. Hek said that Rymbui cannot be blamed for the […]

Six miners from Assam killed in Meghalaya coal mine accident

In a major tragedy, six coal mine workers hailing from Assam were killed in the East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya on Thursday. As per official sources, five miners died inside the mine and one succumbed to injuries later. Officials said all the deceased hail from Assam. The incident happened at an old abandoned mine […]

Meghalaya coal mine tragedy: SC allows state govt to call off rescue ops

The Supreme Court has asked the Meghalaya government to stop rescue operations at the coal mine at Ksan in East Jaintia Hills. At least 15 miners were trapped in December last year. The state government is estimated to have spent over Rs 3.5 crore since December 13, 2018 till May 2019 on the operations at […]

Meghalaya mine tragedy: Kin of untraced miners gives NOC to state govt to call off rescue operations

Families of miners who remain untraced for over 4 months now in the tragedy hit coal mine at Ksan in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills, despite continuous rescue operations, have given their No Objection Certificate (NOC) to the state government to stop the rescue operations in the ill-fated coal mine. The Meghalaya Government had requested the […]