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Three miners were feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India's northeastern Assam state, authorities said yesterday, and the men were part of a total of nine still trapped as rescue teams worked to reach them.
The mine, in an area controlled by the government, appeared to be illegal, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, adding that local police had arrested one person in connection with the case.
Rescuers have spotted three bodies but have not yet recovered them, the local government said in a statement, a day after the nine miners were trapped by heavy flooding that police said was likely triggered underground.
"The well is about 150 feet deep, of which almost a hundred feet is filled with water," Kaushik Rai, a local minister who is at the site, told Reuters. "Three teams have attempted to enter it since morning and have managed to go as far as 30 to 35 feet," Rai said.
The mine, in an area controlled by the government, appeared to be illegal, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, adding that local police had arrested one person in connection with the case.
Rescuers have spotted three bodies but have not yet recovered them, the local government said in a statement, a day after the nine miners were trapped by heavy flooding that police said was likely triggered underground.
"The well is about 150 feet deep, of which almost a hundred feet is filled with water," Kaushik Rai, a local minister who is at the site, told Reuters. "Three teams have attempted to enter it since morning and have managed to go as far as 30 to 35 feet," Rai said.