The incident took place at the Assam Coal Quarry in the 3 Kilo area of Umrangso, located in the Dima Hasao district. Rescue operations are underway as authorities work to reac Read More ...

Partially decomposed bodies of all miners were retrieved after several days from the rat-hole mine.Rai, in a reply to a separate query from AIUDF MLA Ashraful Hussain, said that the government has ...

According to employees of the quarry, there were around 15 workers inside the mine, though the authorities did not confirm the number. Sarma said he has spoken to Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy, who ...

Guwahati: The decomposed bodies of three more miners, trapped in a coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district have been recovered, 44 days after they went missing in the quarry, an official said on ...

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 26 2025 (IPS) - On Christmas Day in 2022, 27-year-old Thabani Dlodlo’s eight-year-old son drowned in a flooded pit dug up by quarry miners in the vicinity of Pumula North, a ...

which left several labourers in a coal quarry dead. He also alleged that "illegal mining continues unchecked" due to "weak law enforcement and local complicity" in the northeastern state.

The disaster occurred at a 300-foot coal mine at the Assam coal quarry located at 3 Kilo, which is 30km west of Umrangso in Dima Hasao and over 140km from district headquarters Haflong.