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SP Cachar visits house of one worker at Katigorah trapped in Meghalaya coal mine
May 31: In a tragic incident, around 5 workers from Assam and Tripura are feared to be trapped in a coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district. As per reports, a dynamite blast led to the flooding of a coal mine at Sutunga interior under Unpleng AD camp in East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya, trapping five labourers. Police and specialists launched a search and rescue operation after receiving information from the police in southern Assam’s Cachar district about the possible death of five-seven miners in a mine accident on the night of May 30.
One Karimul Bari of Cachar district had tipped off the local police, saying one of his neighbours was among the dead lying buried 500 ft under the surface. Cachar SP Nimbalkar Vaibhav Chandrakant said that he immediately informed his East Jaintia Hills district counterpart about the incident.
Information has emanated from SP Silchar that 6 persons from Assam are trapped in a coal mine in EJ Hills .
The mine has been identified at Sutunga interior, under umplemg AD camp and search operations are on .
SP @ejhpolice and IG (L&O) are at the suspected PO .
— Meghalaya Police (@MeghalayaPolice) May 31, 2021
Meanwhile, SP Cachar Nimbalkar Vaibhav Chandrakant alongwith OC Katigorah visited the house of Anowarul H. Borbhuiya of village Nazatpur, PS- Katigorah, who is feared to be one of the victims of recent incident at Sutnga in East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya. Family members were assured of all cooperation from Cachar Police.
SP @cacharpolice & OC Katigorah visited the house of Sh. Anowarul H. Borbhuiya of vill Nazatpur, PS- Katigorah, who is feared to be one of the victims of recent incident at Sutnga in East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya. Family members were assured of all cooperation from @cacharpolice. pic.twitter.com/cXtjd3T4WU
— Cachar Police (@cacharpolice) May 31, 2021
This is the third major coal mine mishap in East Jaintia Hills district. Though the National Green Tribunal had in April 2014 banned the hazardous rat-hole coal mining in Meghalaya, but coal mining continues to be rampant over there as per some activists. The last known incident of a coal mine mishap in the state took place in East Jaintia Hills in January this year in which six labourers from Assam had lost their lives.
