Jharkhand mine tragedy: Death toll touches 17
"Rescue teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL)/Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL),State Government & Experts have been continuously carrying out rescue work at the accident site of ECL’s Rajmahal Open Cast Expansion Project in district Goda, Jharkhand and unfortunately the casualties have increased from seven in the morning of 30.12.2016 to Seventeen by 1.00 PM today, the 01.01.2017," the government said in a statement.
"ECL is in contact with the families of the deceased and all the necessary help is being extended to them. Law & Order is under control," it said.
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