Guwahati, Jan 24 (IBNS): The Indian Navy on Thursday managed to fish out the decomposed body of one of the 15 miners who went missing in an illegal rat-hole mine at Ksan area in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district 42 days ago.
The rescue team had undergone considerable trouble to being out the body that had been spotted last week. Efforts to pull it out resulted in it disintegrating and slipping to the bottom of the main shaft, said reports. It was finally recovered today.
The highly decomposed body has been sent for post-mortem and search is on for the other missing miners in the flooded mine.
On Monday, the Centre and the state government had assured the Supreme Court they were not abandoning efforts rescue efforts.
Reports said the families of the missing miners want whatever remains of their loved ones possible to be recovered from the flooded mine.
The Odisha Fire Services last Wednesday operated their pump for six and half hours and managed to discharge 5.85 lakh litres water from the main shaft.
On the other hand, the Coal India Limited operated their pumps for 20 hours and discharged 22.68 lakh litres water.
The Coal India Limited surveyors said the water level of the shaft has remained the same.
The Chennai based Planys Technology has also continued their operation for SONAR (Sound Navigation and Raging) mapping of the shaft to sanitize and to identify the rat hole.
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