This incident marks the latest in a series of workplace mishaps at sites operated by ArcelorMittal. Kazakhstan's Prosecutor General has announced an investigation into potential safety violations in the coal mine.
The bodies of 3 persons- two officials and one outsourced worker- were recovered under the debris inside the mine late on Tuesday night, Singareni Collieries Company Ltd sources said.
Water was being pumped out of the mine, and the water level was falling, the Xiaoyi government said in an update on social media.
A team of NDRF personnel will arrive in Bokaro to carry out search and rescue operations at the Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) mine in Chandankiyari block of the district, the officer said.
At least 15 miners were trapped in a coal mine in the Ksan area of East Jaintia Hills on 13 December 2018. While five of them managed to escape, rescue efforts for the remaining 10 had continued till 2 March 2019.
The mine was recently shut down following a state government order banning illegal coal mining and a provisional ban on licensed mining activity, police said.
Rourkela, Aug 11: The death toll in coal dump crash at an open cast site of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) in Odisha's Sundargarh district mounted to 14 with the recovery of four more bodies as
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