Shillong, Jun 16 (UNI) A combined team of the Indian Navy and National and State Disaster Response Force on Wednesday pulled out a body from the 500 feet deep flooded coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district where four miners still remain trapped since May 30, an official said.
“The highly decomposed unidentified body was pulled to the water surface by the deep divers of the Indian Navy and then taken out in a bucket-type container to the higher grounds at 12:40 hours on Wednesday," a rescue official told UNI.
“It was not an easy exercise but the deep divers showed their skills amid the high turbidity which is limiting visibility inside the coal pit, besides there were too many other obstructions. They divers dived deep inside and pulled out the unidentified body safely to the surface of the water inside the main shaft,” the rescue official said.