After local activists in Meghalaya’s coal-rich East Jaintia Hills district protested against illegal coal mining activities, the state is now carrying out a vigorous search operation to rescue 13 miners who are trapped inside the ‘rat-hole’.
Due to heavy flooding, the rescue operation has become even more cumbersome and water is being continuously pumped out to find them. NDTV reported that around 100 personnel have been sent to the coal site which is around 320 feet deep.
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National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is also assisting the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF). The navigation operation is turning out to be a tedious job due to the narrow and irregular nature of passages that have been made by rat-hole mining.