Meghalaya Mining Tragedy: Body of one miner detected by Indian Navy divers; recovery underway
TNT News | January 17, 2019
The body of one of the 15 coal miners trapped inside a coal mine in Ksan area of East Jaintia Hills has been detected by the Indian Navy.
The same was announced by the official Twitter handle of the Spokesperson of the Indian Navy this morning
#MeghalayaMineTragedy #Flash One body detected by Indian Navy Divers using Underwater ROV at a depth of approx 60 feet and 210 feet inside a rat-hole mine @SpokespersonMoD @DefenceMinIndia @nsitharaman @PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/sP1sv6ikRn
— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) January 17, 2019
#MeghalayaMineTragedy The depth is 160 feet (and not 60 feet) and the body has been pulled upto the mouth of Rat-hole mine and shall be extracted out of the mine under the supervision of Doctors
— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) January 17, 2019
A month after 15 miners got trapped inside a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya, one body has been detected by divers on Thursday morning, the Indian Navy informed on Twitter. "One body detected by Indian Navy Divers using Underwater ROV at a depth of approx 60 feet and 210 feet inside a rat-hole mine," SpokespersonNavy, the official Twitter handle of the Indian Navy, stated.
Fifteen miners have been trapped inside the illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills since December 13. The mine got flooded when water from the nearby Lytein river gushed into it. It is feared that none of the miners would make it alive.
The rescue operations were making little headway after the water refused to recede despite attempts to pump out the same using high-powered pumps.
