SHILLONG: The heavily decomposed body of an unidentified miner has been retrieved from a 370 ft illegal rat-hole mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district, 77 days after 15 men got trapped inside the flooded coal quarry, an official said.
According to the official, the body, located 200 ft away from the bottom of the mine, was brought out using the Indian Navy’s underwater remotely operated vehicle (UROV) and an NDRF boat on Wednesday.
This is the second “heavily” decomposed body to be lifted from the mine after it flooded accidentally on December 13, 2018.
It was dispatched to the civil hospital at the district headquarters at Khliehriat for post-mortem examination, operations spokesperson R Susngi told PTI.
