"Three coal miners are trapped inside the illegal rat-hole miner after the landslide in Patkai hills. Among those trapped is Dawa Cherpa from Bhojpur in Nepal, and two workers are from Meghalaya, identified as John and Fenaal"
Officials the incident happened on Sunday, highlighting the precarious conditions rampant in such unauthorized mining operations, in total, four coal workers were engaged in the work of procuring illegal rat-hole mine, the official said.
"Three of them went inside the mine and the fourth one was assisting in coal transporation, suddenly landslide occured, which trapped the three workers inside the mine.
It has been suspected that they died inside the coal mine but we cannot say it until we get their bodies, official said.
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