Judicial custody for owner of Meghalaya coal mine where 5 workers are trapped
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Dynamite blast in pit on May 30 had left workers trapped
The owner of a coal mine in Meghalaya where was sent to judicial custody a day after he surrendered on June 2, State Home Minister Lakhmen Rymbui has said. The five miners, feared dead, were trapped following a dynamite blast in the pit about 500 ft deep. The mine, one of a few thousand in the State’s East Jaintia Hills district, was known to have been abandoned. Four of the trapped miners are from Assam and one from Tripura.More Related News
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