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8 workers are trapped in a 300 feet deep coal mine in Umrangso in Dima Hasao district of Assam for the last 72 hours. The body of a laborer was taken out on Wednesday. Now Air Force aircraft and helicopters have also joined the rescue.
NDRF and SDRF teams are also helping. Engineers task force along with divers and medical teams from the Indian Army and Assam Rifles are also present. HPS Kandari, Commandant of the First Battalion of NDRF, said – Water is being extracted from the mine through two motors. Once the water is gone. After that we will go in and run a manual search operation.
Assam Special DGP Harmeet Singh had said on Wednesday that nothing was visible inside the mine. Navy’s ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) was sent inside the tunnel. The ROV is capable of taking photographs and is equipped with sonar waves. However, nothing was visible in it. Now the mine is being cleaned.
The accident took place on January 6, when workers were extracting coal from the mine. The army has been deployed to rescue the workers. According to reports, this is a mine of rat miners. It is filled with water up to 100 feet, which is being removed with the help of two motors. The police have arrested the mine owner Puneesh Nunisa.
5 pictures of the rescue operation…
The body of one of the nine laborers trapped in a mine in Assam was taken out.
Divers have been sent to the mine for rescue through trolley.
Names of workers trapped in Umrangso coal mine
- Ganga Bahadur Shreth, Rampur (Dummana-2 Bhejpur), PS Thoksila, District: Udaipur, Nepal
- Hussain Ali, Bagribari, Thana Shyampur, District: Darrang, Assam
- Zakir Hussain, 4 No. Sialmari Khuti, Thana Dalgaon, District: Darrang, Assam
- Sarpa Barman, Khalisnimari, Thana Gosaigaon, District: Kokrajhar, Assam
- Mustafa Shaikh, Bagribari, PS Dalgaon, Dist: Darrang, Assam
- Khusi Mohan Rai, Majergaon, Thana Fakirgram, District: Kokrajhar, Assam
- Sanjit Sarkar, Raichenga, District: Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
- Lijan Magar, Assam Coal Mine, PS Umrangso, Dist: Dima Hasao, Assam
- Sarat Goyari, Thilapara, Batashipur, Post Office Panbari, Dist: Sonitpur, Assam
15 rat hole miners were killed in 2018 also
A similar accident took place in East Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya in 2018. Where 15 laborers were trapped and died in the coal mine. On December 13, 20 miners had entered the 370 feet deep mine, out of which 5 workers had come out before filling with water. 15 laborers could not be saved.
What is rat hole mining?
Rat means rat, hole means hole and mining means digging. It is clear that entering the hole and digging like a rat. In this, digging is started from the side of the mountain with a thin hole and after making a pole, it is gradually drilled with a small hand drilling machine. The debris is taken out manually.
A process called rat hole mining has been commonly used in coal mining. Rat hole mining takes place in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and North East, but rat hole mining is a very dangerous work, hence it has been banned many times.
Rat mining was imposed by NGT in 2014 ban
Rat mining was invented by workers working in coal mines. National Green Tribunal, i.e. NGT, had banned it in 2014. Experts had called it an unscientific method. However, rat mining is not banned in special circumstances, i.e. rescue operations.
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