{"id":204842,"date":"2022-11-15T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=204842"},"modified":"2022-11-15T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T18:42:14","slug":"12-feared-trapped-as-stone-quarry-collapses-in-mizoram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/12-feared-trapped-as-stone-quarry-collapses-in-mizoram\/","title":{"rendered":"12 feared trapped as stone quarry collapses in Mizoram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAizawl, Nov 14 (PTI) At least 12 people are feared trapped after a stone quarry collapsed in south Mizoram&#8217;s Hnahthial district, about 160 km from Aizawl, on Monday, a senior police officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident occurred at around 3 pm when labourers of ABCI Infrastructure private limited were working in the quarry at Maudarh village, Hnahthial, Superintendent of Police (SP), Vineet Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that 13 people were working at the place when it caved in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While one worker managed to escape from the spot the remaining 12 failed to do so and were trapped under the debris, the SP told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescue operation is in progress and and no person has been rescued from the debris till 7:30 pm, Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hnahthial district officials and a medical team also rushed to the spot soon after the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People familiar with the incident said that loose soil caved in from the above while the labourers were breaking and collecting the stones at the quarry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Volunteers of Young Mizo Association (YMA) from nearby villages also rushed to the spot for the rescue operation, they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maudarh is a small hamlet located about 23 km away from Hnahthial town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company which is currently constructing a highway between Hnahthial and Dawn village, collects stones or boulders from the quarry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aizawl, Nov 14 (PTI) At least 12 people are feared trapped after a stone quarry collapsed in south Mizoram&#8217;s Hnahthial district, about 160 km from Aizawl, on Monday, a senior police officer said. The incident occurred at around 3 pm when labourers of ABCI Infrastructure private limited were working in the quarry at Maudarh village, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-204842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}