4 People may trapped for two days in Bokaro coal mine in Jharkhand

4 People may trapped for two days in Bokaro coal mine in Jharkhand.

  • Four people, including a woman, are feared trapped in the Bokaro coal mine
  • All four, all residents of Tilatand village, were reportedly trapped after the mine collapsed.
  • A team of NDRF personnel has arrived in Bokaro to conduct search and rescue operations.

Four people, including a woman, are feared trapped in an abandoned coal mine for the past two days, unable to be traced by local police, a senior official said.

A team of NDRF personnel arrived in Bokaro to carry out search and rescue operations at the Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) mine in the district’s Chandankiyari block, the official said.

All four, all residents of Tilatand village, were reportedly trapped after the mine collapsed on Friday.

Bokaro SP Chandan Kumar Jha told PTI that the NDRF team will start operations later in the day to rescue the four, who had entered the quarry for illegal mining.

“Four people, including a woman, are reportedly trapped in the Parvatpur coal block. Their families have claimed that they disappeared after the mine collapsed,” Jha said.