The water level inside an illegal coal mine where five miners remain trapped for the past 11 days in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district has come down to an extent, but that is not enough for the rescuers to start operations inside, an official said on Thursday.
He said that the dewatering process is on and the water level inside the vertical shaft of the coal pit has decreased to about 36.6 metre from 46 metre recorded on June 4.
Around 60 personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and various state agencies are waiting for the water level to come down to about 10 meters in the 152 metre-deep pit, as that is the maximum level in which they can work, a magistrate posted at the site at Umpleng told PTI.
