Illegal mining of coal near a Central Coalfield Limited’s (CCL) coal Washary, Swang project, which has caused several accidents in the past claimed its latest victim, a youth, here on Saturday evening.
Golden Prasad alias Sakti Kapoor Prasad, a resident of Patwa basti under the Gomia police station in Bokaro, died in an accident that occurred at Swang Washary project only half kilometer from Gomia police station.
Golden Prasad was crushed to death when the roof of the mine where he was extracting collapsed on him. The collapse led to panic among the other villagers, who were engaged in illegal mining.
The local police In-Charge Binay Kumar rushed to the spot and recovered the body of Golden Prasad and sent it for postmortem at Tenughat sub-division hospital.
