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Body pulled out from 370 feet deep flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district

Shillong :  A Navy team on Thursday pulled out a body from a 370 deep feet flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where 14 miners still remain trapped since December 13. The highly decomposed body was pulled to the water surface by an underwater remotely operated vehicle (UROV) and then taken out, […]

The Indian Navy divers on Wednesday used an underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle) at a depth of about 160 feet in a rat-hole mine at Ksan village in East Jaintia Hills district, with pictures of a body which was pulled up to the mouth of the mine (Image Credit : Navy Spokesperson/Twitter)

Navy divers detect body in Meghalaya mine, families want bodies out

Shillong | The families of the trapped miners inside an illegal 370-ft flooded coal mine in Meghalaya on Thursday said they want the “dead bodies” of the miners to be taken out as per the Supreme Court order even as Navy divers captured pictures of a body inside the flooded mine. The Indian Navy divers […]