Forty-two days after nine miners went missing in a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, rescue teams recovered the last five bodies on Wednesday, bringing a tragic end to the Umrangso coal mine disaster.
Assam Minister for Mines and Minerals, Kaushik Rai, distributed ₹10 lakh ex-gratia to the next of kin of those who lost their lives in the tragic Umrangso coal mine incident at Kalamati, 3-Kilo in Dima Hasao district.