In the north-eastern status of Assam, firefighters in India are working against the clock to rescue workers who are stranded inside a flooded fuel mine.
After the state government claimed rescue team had spotted some systems they have been unable to accomplish, three of the nine insiders were reportedly dead, according to Reuters.
The rat-hole me, a personally dug, was flooded by water on Monday morning, leaving the men trapped.
Smaller, illegal mining are still operating in Assam and other north-eastern claims despite the ban on such mine in India since 2014.
The state and national crisis response makes are also assisting efforts, and divers, helicopters, and technicians have been deployed to help with the men who are trapped.
Assam Director General of Police GP Singh had stated on Monday night that officials were able to determine how many people were trapped in particular.
More than a dozen workers were reportedly able to escape, and initial studies suggested that the “numbers would be in solitary figures.”
The Dima Hasao district’s steep place is where the mine is located.
Senior officers established in the city, Mayank Kumar Jha, told Reuters that the place was extremely “remote” and “difficult to reach”.
Mine-related disasters are not unusual in India’s east.
After waters from a local river flooded an illegal mine in the state of Meghalaya in December 2018, at least 15 people were trapped in it.
Five workers made it out, but some ‘ recovery efforts continued until the following March’s first month. Just two bodies were recovered.
Six employees were killed in a fire that broke out in a rat-hole coal plant in Nagaland position in January 2024.
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