Three persons were feared dead and several others injured when a mine roof collapsed at an illegal mining site of Kaparsa Colliery of Eastern Coalfields Limited in Nirsa block of Dhanbad on Monday night.
The deceased was from a village in Nalhati town in the Birbhum district of Bengal. The family members of the deceased fled away from the site along with the dead bodies fearing legal action.
However, the police, local administration and Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) management, which owns the mining site, have denied any such incident. Local residents led by former Nirsa MLA, Arup Chatterjee entered the ill-fated mines late Monday night and identified one of the deceased persons as Abu Sheikh,
