One dead body has been recovered from the collapsed coal mine at 3 Kilo, Umrangso, where nine miners were trapped on January 6.According to a statement from an NDRF

The incident occurred on Monday morning when nine workers, aged 26 to 57, got trapped in a coal mine in 3 Kilo, Umrangso, in Assam’s hilly Dima Hasao district.

Multiple agencies, including the Navy and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), continued operations on Wednesday to rescue the eight remaining workers trapped in the flooded mine.

At least nine workers are trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state, officials said Tuesday, as authorities summoned the army to help in the rescue operation. The miners became trapped on Monday morning in the Umrangso area in Dima Hasao district,

On Monday morning, at least nine workers aged between 26 and 57 were trapped in a coal mine in 3 Kilo, Umrangso, in the hilly district of Dima Hasao.

The body of one of the nine workers who were trapped in an inundated coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao was recovered by search and rescue teams on Wednesday morning.

By Tora Agarwala GUWAHATI (Reuters) -Three miners were feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India's northeastern Assam state, authorities said on Tuesday, and the men were part of a total of nine still trapped as rescue teams worked to reach them.

An official said that along with the Navy divers and other rescue teams, two water pumping machines have also been deployed to flush out the water.