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Search continues for trapped miners in Assam; Navy team moves out of mishap site

The Indian Navy team on Monday moved out of the site of the flooded rat-hole coal mine in Dima Hasao district of Assam where five miners have remained trapped since January 6. “Dewatering continues with other agencies still trying to locate the other trapped miners,” Dima Hasao’s District Commissioner, Simanta Kumar Das, said. FIRs lodged On Sunday, an organisation named …

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Assam mining tragedy: Rescue operations enter day 7

The joint search and rescue operations are underway at the rat-hole coal mine at 3 Kilo Umrangso area in Assam's Dima Hasao to locate 5 other trapped workers.The rescue teams of the Indian army, Indian Navy, NDRF and other agencies have retrieved four bodies from the flooded rat-hole mine. The rescue operations are still underway, with five miners still missing.A …

3 more bodies recovered from flooded Assam mine, clock ticks for trapped workers

The bodies of three more workers trapped in a flooded 'rat hole' coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district were recovered on Saturday, officials said, as rescue operations entered their sixth day. The deceased were among nine workers trapped inside the quarry in Umrangso on January 6 after a sudden surge of water inundated the abandoned mine near the Assam-Meghalaya …

Assam coal mine tragedy: Bodies of three more miners retrieved amid ongoing rescue efforts

GUWAHATI: The bodies of three more miners were recovered from the rat-hole coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district on Saturday, raising the death toll to four. A joint rescue operation by the Army, Navy, and NDRF continued as five miners remain trapped inside the 3-Kilo Coal Quarry in the Umrangso area, about 250 km from Guwahati, after a sudden …

Body of miner recovered from flooded coal mine in Assam, 8 still trapped

The body of one of nine miners trapped inside a 'rat hole' coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district was recovered by a diving team of the Indian Army on Wednesday. As a result of heavy rain, water gushed into the 300-foot-deep illegal mine situated in Umrangso, a remote industrial town near the Assam-Meghalaya border, trapping the nine workers on …

In an ambitious initiative to boost tourism, the state-run Airport Authority of India will introduce water aerodrome or seaplanes in three locations in Assam for the first time, a top AAI official said. To boost tourism and connectivity, three river fronts were selected in Assam to introduce the water based ferry for the first time in India,” AAI Regional Executive …