250 mines shut down in a week as Assam widens crackdown after …
2 days ago · News; India; 250 mines shut down in a week as Assam widens crackdown after deaths of 9 miners; ... Two weeks after the tragedy in the Umrangso coal reserves in Dima Hasao, only four bodies have been recovered. Following the incident, the state government announced that it would begin sealing all illegal rat-hole mines in the Umrangso reserves ...
Assam: 250 mines shut down as state intensifies crackdown after …
9 hours ago · Rescue workers outside the 300-foot deep coal mine located in the industrial town of Umrangso in Assam’s Dima Hasao district. | Himanta Biswa Sarma, @himantabiswa/X Authorities in Assam have ...
Assam Launches Operation To Shut Rat-Hole Coal Mines After
2 days ago · The Assam government is carrying out an operation to close rat-hole coal mines in the state, following the tragedy in the Dima Hasao district, officials said on Thursday. At least nine labourers were trapped inside the 3-Kilo Coal Quarry in Umrangso on January 9 after a sudden gush of water flooded it.
Miners trapped as a rat-hole coal mine floods
6 days ago · On the morning of January 6, when Babul Chandra Das from Tezpur, saw the news on TV, about an accident in a rat-hole mine near Umrangso in the Dima Hasao district of Assam, he became anxious. ... The abandoned coal mine was illegally operated without safety protocols. Attempts to dewater the mine and rescue the trapped miners, are still on.
Drive to seal Assam rat-hole coal mines begins - The Hindu
6 days ago · Drive to seal Assam rat-hole coal mines begins Five miners remain trapped in the flooded mine in Dima Hasao district’s Umrangso since January 6 Updated - January 19, 2025 05:55 pm IST - GUWAHATI
Assam mine tragedy: Body of one miner recovered from flooded coal mine …
Jan 8, 2025 · 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 ...
Several Workers Trapped In Coal Mine In Assam's Dima Hasao
Jan 6, 2025 · Several workers are feared trapped inside a 'rat hole' coal mine after water entered into the 300-foot-deep quarry in the Dima Hasao district of Assam. The illegal mine is located in Umrangso, a remote industrial town near the Meghalaya border, and the full scale of the tragedy remains unclear.
‘Perhaps it was destiny’: Families of Assam coal miners recount …
Jan 12, 2025 · UMRANGSO: As families of many coal miners waited here on Sunday, hoping their family members would be brought out from the mine that got filled with water on Jan 6, submerging at least 11, survivors of the catastrophe near the Assam-Meghalaya border recounted harrowing moments.
Oppn parties seek probe into legality of Umrangso coal mine
Jan 8, 2025 · Guwahati: Opposition parties, while urging the state govt to take all requisite measures to rescue the miners trapped in the coal mine in Umrangso in Dima Hasao expeditiously, on Tuesday demanded chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma investigate if the mine was legal and operated in accordance with laws and regulations.
Body recovered from inundated coal mine in Assam’s Umrangso
Guwahati, Jan 8 (IANS) The body of one of the trapped labourers in a coal mine in Umrangso locality in Assam’s Dima Hasao district was recovered by the para divers, said Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday.