{"id":306991,"date":"2018-12-14T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306991"},"modified":"2018-12-14T08:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:08:31","slug":"meghalaya-13-miners-trapped-in-coal-mine-rescue-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/meghalaya-13-miners-trapped-in-coal-mine-rescue-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya: 13 miners trapped in coal mine, rescue on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306995 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/coal-mine-1-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/coal-mine-1-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/coal-mine-1.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thirteen miners, who were trapped inside a coal mine in\u00a0Meghalaya\u2019s East Jaintia Hills district on Thursday, were yet to be reached or rescued, officials said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A search operation is underway. \u201cWater is being pumped out and efforts are on to identify the thirteen mine workers, official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams have been pressed into service to carry out the rescue operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the sources, the workers survival chances were bleak since water has filled the mine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police have registered a case against the owner of the mine who is yet to be traced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, Coal mine accidents are common in the mountainous state because of\u00a0unscientific\u00a0mining\u00a0commonly known &#8220;rat hole mining.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2014, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had ordered an interim ban on rat-hole coal mining in the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen miners, who were trapped inside a coal mine in\u00a0Meghalaya\u2019s East Jaintia Hills district on Thursday, were yet to be reached or rescued, officials said on Friday. A search operation is underway. \u201cWater is being pumped out and efforts are on to identify the thirteen mine workers, official said. Police said that the National Disaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028,2030,2014],"tags":[10284,10283,1542,5413,1546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306996,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306991\/revisions\/306996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}