One dead body has been r𒅌ecovered from the collapsed coal mine at 3 Kilo, Umrangso, whജere nine miners were trapped on January 6.
Rescu🍸e teams recovered the body of a miner, who was among the nine trapped i🌸n a collapsed mine in Assam.
This was con♋firmed in a statement by NDRF on Wednesday morning. 🅰;
The joint rescue operation l🐷ed by the Indian Army, Assam Rifles, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), and other agencies resumed early in the morning to rescue trapped miners in a coal mine.
Assam Chief Minister Statement
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma wrote on X, "2🦋1 para divers have just recovered a lifeless body from the bottom of t♉he well. Our thoughts and prayers are with the grieving family."
"The rescue operation is in full swing, with Army and NDR🐽F divers having already entered the well. Navy personnel are on-site, making final preparations to dive in after them. Meanwhile, SDRF de-watering pumps have departed from Umrangshu for the location. Additionally, the ONGC de-watering pump has been loaded onto an MI-17 helicopter at Kumbhigram, awaiting weather clearence for deployment." Sarma added.
NDRF Statement
NDRF Deputy Commandant N. Tiwari said, "The operation was c🐬losed yesterday evening, and we have resumed the operation again this morn🐷ing. We expect to reach our miners as soon as possible and rescue them," as quoted by News Agency ANI.
Diving Teams Are On Spot
The Eastern Naval Command has been airlifted & deployed from Visakhapatnam for the search and rescue operations for trapped miners at the 3 Kilo Assam Quarry Mine, Umrangso, Dima Hasao, Assam.𝓀 The rescue effort is being conducted in close coordination with the Indian Army, NDRF, and the local civil administration to ensure an immediate & effective respoꦍnse.
Meanwhile, in January last year, a fire in a coal mine in Nagaland's Wokha district had left six workers dead. Four others w꧑ere also injured. In May of the same year, a mine in Assam’s Tinsukia district caved in, killing three miners. Then in September 2022, three coal miners got killed by inhaling suspected toxic gas in the same district.
The b🀅iggest tragedy in recent memory was the death of 15 miners i🦩n a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya’s Ksan area on December 13, 2018.
