There were 20 miners reported in the coal mine when it caved in following a methane gas explosion. An extensive rescue operation was green-lit by Balochistan CM Sarfaraz Bugti after which the bodies were recovered and surviving miners rescued.
According to the officials who were engaged in the rescue operations, a landslide occurred near Kachin's Hpakant township as the region has been receiving torrential rainfall.
Chhattisgarh: The victims were extracting limestone when a part of it caved in.
At least six people were buried alive in Jharkhand's Koderma district when the roof of a mica mine caved in, a senior police officer said on Friday.
At least 22 people have been killed and dozens were battling for their lives after six units of the famed marble mines in Pakistan's Ziarat Ghar mountain collapsed, causing large boulders to fall on them, according to media reports on Tuesday.
At least five people have died in a mine collapse in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol. According to news agency ANI, a mound of soil collapsed at the quarry in Beohari. Three others are injured in the incident.
At least nine labourers were killed and eight others injured when a marble mine collapsed due to landsliding in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, Official of Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Informed.
The government told a bench comprising Justice A K Sikri and S Abdul Nazeer that the illegal mine was located near a river and seepage of water from the river was hindering the rescue operation.
Sahib Ali, hailing from Assam's Chirang district, is one of the five men who narrowly escaped the flooding coal mine a fortnight ago.
The 15-member team, equipped with specialised diving equipment including a re-compression chamber and remotely operated vehicles capable of searching underwater, went straightway to the mine site in the remote Lumthari village in East Jaintia Hills district.
The mine got flooded when water from the nearby Lytein river gushed into it on December 13, trapping the 15 diggers.
The death toll climbed to 17 in the coal mine collapse at Lalmatia open cast coal mine in Jharkhand's Godda even as rescue operations were today underway at the mishap site.
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