Assam: India rescuers race to save men stuck in flooded rat-hole mine

Rescuers in India are racing towards time to deliver out miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine within the north-eastern state of Assam.

Three of the 9 males inside had been feared useless, Reuters reported, after the state authorities stated rescue groups had noticed some our bodies they’ve been unable to succeed in.

The lads had been trapped on Monday morning after water flooded the rat-hole mine, which is a slender gap dug manually to extract coal.

Regardless of a ban on such mining in India since 2014, small unlawful mines proceed to be operational in Assam and different north-eastern states.

Divers, helicopters and engineers have been deployed to assist rescue the trapped males and the state and nationwide catastrophe response forces are additionally aiding efforts.

On Monday night, Assam Director Normal of Police GP Singh had stated that authorities had been ascertaining the precise variety of folks trapped.

Studies stated greater than a dozen miners had managed to flee and preliminary stories instructed that the “numbers could be in single digits”.

The mine is positioned within the hilly space of Dima Hasao district.

Senior police official within the district, Mayank Kumar Jha, informed Reuters that the realm was very “distant” and “tough to succeed in”.

Mine-related disasters aren’t unusual in India’s northeast.

In December 2018, not less than 15 males had been trapped in an unlawful mine within the neighbouring state of Meghalaya after water from a close-by river flooded it.

5 miners managed to flee however the rescue efforts for the others continued till the primary week of March the next yr. Solely two our bodies had been recovered.

In January 2024, six staff had been killed after a fireplace broke out in a rat-hole coal mine in Nagaland state.

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