Five people including four women were found dead in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand after they were trapped in an open cast coal mine, part of which caved in, officials said. The incident occurred Tuesday morning at the Eastern Coalfields’ open cast mine in the Gopinathpur area of Dhanbad.
Officials said that following rescue efforts, three women and one man’s dead bodies were brought out and one woman was rushed to the hospital for treatment, but was later found dead. All five had gone to the mine to get coal and sell it in the market as well as to use it in their house as fuel.
