Water flooded a rat-hole mine in the Dima Hasao district of Assam, earlier this month, trapping several miners inside. The abandoned coal mine was illegally operated without safety protocols. Attempts ...

Several workers have been trapped for more than 12 hours in a coal “rat-hole” mine after it was flooded with water on Monday (January 6) morning in Dima Hasao district of Assam. The rescue operations ...

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The term “rat hole” refers to the ... person to descend and extract coal. Trending Photos Nine labourers were trapped on Monday inside the Assam Coal Quarry in the 3 Kilo area of Umrangso after a ...

The drive is in connection with the flooding of a 90-metre-deep rat-hole coal mine on January 6, trapping nine miners. The bodies of four miners were retrieved by January 10 but five others remain ...

Indian Army via AP The body of one of the nine miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in Assam was recovered on Wednesday (January 8). These men got trapped in the “rat hole” mine in Dima Hasao’s ...

The Assam government has detected 220 rat-hole coal mines in the Dima Hasao district’s Umrangso area, including the ill-fated one where nine miners were trapped on January 6. The State ...

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To prevent future such tragedies, the Assam government will frame a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to effect a blanket ban on rat-hole mining across the state. Guwahati: The tragic incident at the ...

Further updates are awaited as rescue efforts continue around the clock. Rat-hole mining is a method of coal extraction commonly practiced in Meghalaya. It involves digging narrow, horizontal ...

District Magistrate Simanta Das said efforts are underway to operationalize a high-capacity pump flown in from Nagpur by Coal India Limited. GUWAHATI: Water levels have receded at the ill-fated ...

The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s ... began drilling holes beneath the shaft to place explosives, according to several workers.