A group of skilled miners from Uttar Pradesh joined the rescue operation to save 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi. The miners will manually dig their way through the debris to reach the trapped workers. The rescue is expected to be completed within the next 24 to 36 hours.
More than two months after 15 people were trapped inside a 370-foot-deep rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya s East Jaintia Hills district, the Indian Navy on Wednesday recovered one more highly decomposed body of a miner, according to reports.