{"id":396938,"date":"2021-01-23T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T03:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396938"},"modified":"2021-01-23T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T04:08:01","slug":"six-dead-in-mishap-at-illegal-coal-mine-in-meghalaya-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/six-dead-in-mishap-at-illegal-coal-mine-in-meghalaya-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Six dead in mishap at illegal coal mine in Meghalaya, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mechanical structure collapsed at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya&#8217;s East Jaintia Hills district, killing six miners, an official said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The tragedy occured at the tri-junction of Dienshalalu, Sarkari and Rymbai villages late Thursday, Deputy Commissioner E Kharmalki said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Altogether six persons were killed. While the workers were digging a hole in the mine the mechanical structure got dismantled following which they fell into a pit and died,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Five of the deceased have been identified, the official said, adding, most of them are from neighbouring Assam. <\/p>\n<p>Police have lodged a case against the employer and investigation is under way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mechanical structure collapsed at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya&#8217;s East Jaintia Hills district, killing six miners, an official said on Friday. The tragedy occured at the tri-junction of Dienshalalu, Sarkari and Rymbai villages late Thursday, Deputy Commissioner E Kharmalki said. &#8220;Altogether six persons were killed. While the workers were digging a hole in the mine the mechanical structure got dismantled following which they fell into a pit and died,&#8221; he said. Five of the deceased have been identified, the official said, adding, most of them are from neighbouring Assam. Police have lodged a case against the employer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}