The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Wednesday started removing water at the Dima Hasao coal mine to rescue 8 people who have been trapped since Monday. Rescue operations are underway at the coal mining site,

Indian Navy divers recovered the body of one of the nine miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district on Wednesday. They were trapped on Monday after the mine became inundated with water.

GUWAHATI: The body of one of the nine miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao was retrieved on Wednesday even as hopes of rescuing the others began fading. The deceased was identified as Ganga Bahadur Srestho from Nepal.

Indian authorities have summoned the army to help rescue at least nine workers who are trapped inside a flooded coal mine in the country's northeastern Assam state.

The body of one of the nine workers trapped inside a coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district was recovered by army divers on Wednesday, the third day of the rescue operations, officials said.

Three workers are confirmed dead in the Assam coal mine disaster. Efforts are on to rescue others trapped, with Army, NDRF, SDRF, and Navy divers involved in the operations.

One person was arrested and a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder was filed against him for operating the mine and engaging the workers

The Indian Army has launched a Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) mission to rescue miners trapped in a flooded coal mine in the "3 Kilo" area of Dima Hasao, near the Assam-Meghalaya border.