Three missing miners: India uses divers and helicopters

Three missing miners: India uses divers and helicopters

Guwahate, India (Reuters) - In a remote district of the northeast Indian Assam Assam, fears that three miners have died in a flooded coal mine. The authorities announced on Tuesday that rescue teams worked all night to reach a total of nine men who are included in the mine.

rescue campaigns in the course

rescue teams have already sighted three corpses, but these could not yet be recovered, the local government said in a statement.

military units support the rescue

The military has sent divers, helicopters and engineers to help rescue nine men who have been caught in the hilly Dima Hasao district in Assam since Monday. This information was published in an explanation of the military.

cause of flooding

"The mine was flooded yesterday - the cause was internally. The miners probably hit a water channel, which penetrated water and flooded the mine," Mayank Kumar, the police chief of the Dima Hasao district, told Reuters.

collaboration of the rescue workers

Kumar reported that the military rescue teams and national and state disaster protection workers work to achieve the enclosed miners.

past of the coal mining gap

accidents in coal mines are not uncommon in the remote northeast of India. One of the greatest accidents occurred in 2019 when at least 15 miners were buried by water from a nearby river during work in an illegal mine in the neighboring state of Meghalaya.