CNN — A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners and allow emergency workers to gain access to a shaft where hundreds are believed to be holed up. On Friday, the South African Human Rights Commission said in a statement it was investigating the police for restricting the miners’ essential supplies. The South African Police …
Fourteen officials and members of a vigilance team of PSU Hindustan Copper Limited were trapped in a Kolihan mine in Rajasthan's Neem Ka Thana district when a vertical lift collapsed on Tuesday. Rescue operations underway to rescue trapped HCL workers Praveen Nayak, superintendent of police of Neem ka Thana district, told news agency PTI that a rescue team reached the …
Noida: Two sanitation workers died allegedly after inhaling toxic gases while working in a sewage shaft at a Noida building, police said on Saturday. A resident of Sector 26 had hired the two sanitation workers to clean the sewage shaft at his house around 7pm but during the cleaning process, both the workers lost consciousness. Sumit Chawla, a resident of …
Officials in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand are exploring fresh rescue plans after previous attempts stalled. Indian rescuers are battling to free 41 men trapped in a road tunnel for nine days as they prepare to dig an entirely new shaft after previous efforts failed. The authorities are now trying to send cooked food and set up a phone connection …
Rescuers on Thursday were unable to retrieve a "suspicious object", likely to be the body of a miner, due to the accumulation of debris at the bottom of the flooded 152-metre-deep coal pit in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where five people have been trapped since May 30, an official said. As the dewatering process was on using 10 high-powered …