{"id":7396,"date":"2025-01-07T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/three-feared-dead-as-india-deploys-divers-helicopters-to-rescue-trapped-miners\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:01:41","slug":"three-feared-dead-as-india-deploys-divers-helicopters-to-rescue-trapped-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/three-feared-dead-as-india-deploys-divers-helicopters-to-rescue-trapped-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Three feared dead as India deploys divers, helicopters to rescue trapped miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            <strong>Guwahati, India (Reuters) \u2014 <\/strong>Three miners were feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India\u2019s north-eastern Assam state, authorities said on Tuesday, as rescue teams worked through the night to try to reach a total of nine men trapped inside.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Three bodies have been spotted by rescue teams but have not yet been recovered, the local government said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Army teams deployed divers, helicopters and engineers to help rescue the nine men, who have been trapped since Monday in the mine in Assam\u2019s hilly Dima Hasao district, the army said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cThe mine got flooded yesterday \u2014 the source was internal. They (the miners) probably hit some water channel and water came out and flooded it,\u201d Mayank Kumar, district police chief in Dima Hasao told Reuters.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Kumar said rescue teams from the army, national and state disaster relief forces were working to reach the trapped miners.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Photographs shared by the army on social media showed rescue workers with ropes, cranes and other equipment standing at the edge of a large, vertical mine.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Coal mine-related disasters in the remote northeastern part of India are not uncommon. In one of the biggest disasters, in 2019, at least 15 miners were buried while working in an illegal mine in the neighbouring state of Meghalaya after it was flooded by water from a nearby river.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, India (Reuters) \u2014 Three miners were feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India\u2019s north-eastern Assam state, authorities said on Tuesday, as rescue teams worked through the night to try to reach a total of nine men trapped inside. Three bodies have been spotted by rescue teams but have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}