<p>Guwahati: Body of a worker from Nepal was retrieved from the flooded coal mine in Assam's hilly Dima Hasao district on Wednesday, in which nine persons got trapped on Monday morning.</p><p>Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/himanta-biswa-sarma">Himanta Biswa Sarma</a> said the body fished out by the 21 para divers of the army was identified as that of Ganga Bahadur Shrestha from Nepal. Shresa was a resident of Nepal's Udaypur district. </p><p>An official bulletin said the operation was resumed at 6.45am by the army and the NDRF personnel on Wednesday. Pumps were passed into service to dewater the 300 feet deep well which got flooded on Monday after the workers reportedly hit a neighbouring well, which was already flooded. Dima Hasao district administration on Tuesday said bodies of three workers were found floating in the water. </p>.Illegal 'rat hole' coal mining continues in the Northeast hills despite fatal mishaps, court ban.<p>Rescuers told television channels that the operation was very challenging as there are no lights and there is mud and about 100 meter water. </p><p>The navy deep divers, who were rushed from Visakhapatnam on Tuesday, tried to use sonar equipment to trace the missing persons. "There are several horizontal shafts, which are still under water. So we are waiting till the water is pumped out," one of them said.</p><p>The workers got trapped after the well situated in the interior Tinkilo area under Umrangso police station suddenly got flooded at around 8am on Monday. Umrangso, situated along the border with Meghalaya, is about 300kms from Guwahati. </p>.Illegal sand mining racket busted at creek in Bhiwandi; barge sunk by officials.<p>A few workers, who managed to come out of the mine, informed the mine owner and the local police about the mishap. Officials earlier suspected that the number of trapped persons could be 15 but CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday night released the names of nine missing workers.</p><p>Sarma said Ganga Bahadur Shreth of Nepal and Sanjit Sarkar of Jalpaiguri district of neighbouring West Bengal are among the nine missing persons. Rest of the workers are from Assam's Darrang, Kokrajhar, Dima Hasao and Sonitpur district. Sources said workers from Nepal and Bangladesh are hired by coal miners due to their expertise in "rat hole" mines.</p><p>The wells are first dug vertically and workers then make horizontal shafts in order to extract coal. Some shafts are so narrow that workers have to crawl like rats and so these are called rat hole mines.</p>
<p>Guwahati: Body of a worker from Nepal was retrieved from the flooded coal mine in Assam's hilly Dima Hasao district on Wednesday, in which nine persons got trapped on Monday morning.</p><p>Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/himanta-biswa-sarma">Himanta Biswa Sarma</a> said the body fished out by the 21 para divers of the army was identified as that of Ganga Bahadur Shrestha from Nepal. Shresa was a resident of Nepal's Udaypur district. </p><p>An official bulletin said the operation was resumed at 6.45am by the army and the NDRF personnel on Wednesday. Pumps were passed into service to dewater the 300 feet deep well which got flooded on Monday after the workers reportedly hit a neighbouring well, which was already flooded. Dima Hasao district administration on Tuesday said bodies of three workers were found floating in the water. </p>.Illegal 'rat hole' coal mining continues in the Northeast hills despite fatal mishaps, court ban.<p>Rescuers told television channels that the operation was very challenging as there are no lights and there is mud and about 100 meter water. </p><p>The navy deep divers, who were rushed from Visakhapatnam on Tuesday, tried to use sonar equipment to trace the missing persons. "There are several horizontal shafts, which are still under water. So we are waiting till the water is pumped out," one of them said.</p><p>The workers got trapped after the well situated in the interior Tinkilo area under Umrangso police station suddenly got flooded at around 8am on Monday. Umrangso, situated along the border with Meghalaya, is about 300kms from Guwahati. </p>.Illegal sand mining racket busted at creek in Bhiwandi; barge sunk by officials.<p>A few workers, who managed to come out of the mine, informed the mine owner and the local police about the mishap. Officials earlier suspected that the number of trapped persons could be 15 but CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday night released the names of nine missing workers.</p><p>Sarma said Ganga Bahadur Shreth of Nepal and Sanjit Sarkar of Jalpaiguri district of neighbouring West Bengal are among the nine missing persons. Rest of the workers are from Assam's Darrang, Kokrajhar, Dima Hasao and Sonitpur district. Sources said workers from Nepal and Bangladesh are hired by coal miners due to their expertise in "rat hole" mines.</p><p>The wells are first dug vertically and workers then make horizontal shafts in order to extract coal. Some shafts are so narrow that workers have to crawl like rats and so these are called rat hole mines.</p>