No system discovered in rat-hole mine

MEGALAYA: When water was injected out of a bombarded rat-hole coalmine in Meghalaya’s South Garo Mountains region, where 15 miners were scary stuck, no system was discovered, the National Problems Reaction Force said on Saturday.

But Deputy Primary Reverend Bindo M. Lanong, who is in charge of exploration, said the government’s initiatives at finding the stuck miners would continue and it would determine facts before coming to any summary.

He told The Hindu that he also received reports that the NDRF group discovered no system or heir in the my own in Rongsa Awe town in Nangalbibra.

Asked whether the government would approach any other agency, he said: “If necessary, we will.”

Alok Kumar Singh, Commandant of the First Battalion, NDRF, said save groups went within the my own after the water was cleaned out and seemed for miners, with the help of a dog team and a magnetic life detectors, but did not find any system or heir.

He said the save functions were known as off after the my own was cleaned. “Our group went within the my own after the water was cleaned out and seemed for heirs or bodies…, but they was no find of any heir or system of any victim… We have known as off the operation after cleaning the my own.”