{"id":255051,"date":"2025-01-11T00:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=255051"},"modified":"2025-01-11T00:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:53:40","slug":"assam-mining-tragedy-head-of-labourers-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/assam-mining-tragedy-head-of-labourers-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam mining tragedy: Head of labourers held"},"content":{"rendered":"

GUWAHATI, 10 Jan:<\/strong> The ‘sardar’ or the head of workers of the coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, where eight miners remained trapped, was arrested, even as a dewatering exercise continued in the quarry to facilitate the resumption of rescue operations, police said on Friday.<\/p>\n

The fate of the trapped miners appeared to be grim with personnel involved in the rescue operations racing against time to bring them out of the ill-fated quarry, while the body of one labourer, hailing from Nepal, has been recovered from there, an official said.<\/p>\n

“The sardar (head) of the miners, who had fled the quarry site soon after the incident on 6 January, was arrested on Thursday night from a place after an extensive search operation. This is the second arrest in connection with the case,” said a senior officer who did not divulge the place of arrest.<\/p>\n

The arrested person has been identified as Hanan Laskar, and Punish Nunisa, the lease-holder of the quarry, was held on the second day of the incident in connection with the case, the official said.<\/p>\n

The labourers were on Monday trapped inside the 3Kilo coal quarry in Umrangso area, around 250 kms from Guwahati, after a sudden gush of water flooded the site.<\/p>\n

A case was registered in connection with the incident at the mine which appears to be “illegal,” Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had said.<\/p>\n

Nine labourers were trapped inside the mine after a sudden gush of water flooded the quarry, and the body of one labourer has been recovered so far.<\/p>\n

Dewatering of the quarry, which is 340 feet deep, has been continuing with specialised machines brought in by ONGC and Coal India, the official said.<\/p>\n

The divers from the Navy and the Army will go down into the mine again to conduct rescue operations after considerable water is cleared, the official said.<\/p>\n

Navy, Army, Assam Rifles, NDRF, SDRF and civil administration are engaged in the rescue operations and are positioned at the site, the official said. (PTI)<\/p>\n

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GUWAHATI, 10 Jan: The ‘sardar’ or the head of workers of the coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, where eight miners remained trapped, was arrested, even as a dewatering exercise continued in the quarry to facilitate the resumption of rescue operations, police said on Friday. The fate of the trapped miners appeared to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255051","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=255051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}