Incident came to light after an alert from the neighbour of one of the trapped miners in southern Assam’s SilcharA dynamite blast led to the flooding of a coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district, trapping five labourers, officials said on Monday. East Jaintia Hills district SP Jagpal Singh Dhanoa said the police identified the probable site of the incident in the Sutnga area on Monday morning. People near the site, possibly miners, helped the police identify three of the trapped labourers as Abdul Karim and Abdul Kalam from Assam and Shyamcharan Debbarma from Tripura. Mr. Dhanoa said the search and rescue operation was being led by the State Disaster Response Force under the supervision of the DGP (Law and Order). This is the third major coal mine mishap in East Jaintia Hills district.

Source: The Hindu May 31, 2021 10:18 UTC