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Three coal miners, two from Meghalaya, one from Nepal trapped inside illegal rat hole mine in Patkai hills

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Dibrugarh, May 26: Three coal workers were trapped following a landslide in an illegal rat hole mining in Patkai hills in Eastern Assam Tinsukia on Sunday.

Among those trapped, Dawa Cherpa is from Bhujour, Nepal, and two workers from Meghalaya were identified as John and Fenaal.

According to reports, the incident occurred at around 12.30 PM in the illegal Tikok West Mining site between Bargolai and Namdang located under the Tikok coal mine in Ledo.

Sources said four coal workers were engaged in the work of procuring illegal coal from the rat-hole mine.

“Three of them went inside the mine to procure coal and the fourth one was assisting in coal transportation. Suddenly, a landslide occurred which trapped the three workers inside the mine. It is suspected that they died inside the coal mine,” said a source.

Meanwhile, rescue operation was on to trace the missing coal miners.

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