After more than a month, the deadly mines bodies of the remaining five mines from the water mine, which was flooded in the northeastern province of Asam in India, on Wednesday, February 19, BBCfor Economic times and Indian Express a report.
The discovery of the five objects follows the January 6 incident when nine mines were held after the water was flooded. The hole was called “mice hole” and was manually dug to extract coal.
The bodies have not been identified; “DNA tests will be performed to determine decomposing remains,” said a BBC government official. The first four bodies were recovered within a week.
The first body was recovered two days after the rescue mission, and after three days, on January 11, the other three were found. The search lasted for another 39 days to find the remaining five.
The rescue operation was carried out with the help of the national disaster response force (NDRF), DRF State, the Indian Navy and the Indian Army.
The nine victims were Ganga Bakdour Shreas, 38, Hussein Ali, 30, Jacquer Hussein, 38, Sarba Barman, 46, Mustafa Sikh, 44, Jose Mohan Ray, 57, Sanjette Sarkar, 35, Legain Magar, 26, and Sar. Goyary, 37.
“The process of determining the remains has started,” wrote the Prime Minister of the State of Aam Hanta Pessoa Sarma. x. In addition, the families of the deceased were contacted to help identify the bodies. Ricky Foukan, a disaster management official in the Asam region, said that families will receive 1,000,000 Indian rupees ($ 11551) Compensation from the state government.
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At the time of the accident, nearly 40 workers illegally entered the “mice hole” mine when the water began in the flood. Twenty -five miners succeeded from the successful mine, which is 310 feet deep.
Ravi Ray, one of the men who were rescued from the mine, BBC“We were holding a rope at 50-60 feet (15-18 m) deep water for at least 50 minutes before pulling it.” Adding, “We are [slipped] Return to the water again, but we were able to escape. ”
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Illegal “mice” mining has been ruled in India starting in 2014. Nevertheless, illegal small mines are still operating in the northeast of the Indian states.
Because of the January 6 incident, the Aam authorities are investigating illegal mining activities, for each BBC.