<p class="title">Four miners have been killed following mudslides at an illegal coal mine at Yonglok village in Longleng district of Nagaland, police said on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident happened on Saturday when the four victims, all from Assam, had gone to the abandoned mine to collect their belongings.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They reportedly got stuck inside the open-cast mine on the Assam-Nagaland border following mudslides, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The mine was recently shut down following a state government order banning illegal coal mining and a provisional ban on licensed mining activity, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The victims, hailing from upper Assam, have been identified as Jiten Tanti (40), Krishna Gogoi (32), Tutu Deka (28) and Shushan Phukon (37).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Post-mortem was not done on the bodies at the request of the victims' families. The bodies were delivered to the families after an undertaking.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Nagaland incident has occurred within three months of the Meghalaya mine tragedy in which 15 miners were trapped in an illegal rat-hole mine in East Jaintia Hills district. Rescuers have been able to retrieve only two highly decomposed bodies from the quarry. </p>
<p class="title">Four miners have been killed following mudslides at an illegal coal mine at Yonglok village in Longleng district of Nagaland, police said on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident happened on Saturday when the four victims, all from Assam, had gone to the abandoned mine to collect their belongings.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They reportedly got stuck inside the open-cast mine on the Assam-Nagaland border following mudslides, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The mine was recently shut down following a state government order banning illegal coal mining and a provisional ban on licensed mining activity, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The victims, hailing from upper Assam, have been identified as Jiten Tanti (40), Krishna Gogoi (32), Tutu Deka (28) and Shushan Phukon (37).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Post-mortem was not done on the bodies at the request of the victims' families. The bodies were delivered to the families after an undertaking.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Nagaland incident has occurred within three months of the Meghalaya mine tragedy in which 15 miners were trapped in an illegal rat-hole mine in East Jaintia Hills district. Rescuers have been able to retrieve only two highly decomposed bodies from the quarry. </p>