Meghalaya mine: Rescuers pumped out one lakh twenty thousand litres of water

GUWAHATI: Continuing the rescue operation, the fire service pumped the water from the old shaft near the main shaft for four hours and pumped around 120000 litres of water on Wednesday .

According to an official bulletin issued by district administration, “Coal India limited preparation is going on to put the submersible pump with 100 Horse power that can discharge 500 GPM (gallons per minute) of water".

“The water level in the old shaft adjacent to the main shaft decreased by a total of 16 inch. The dewatering was done only on the adjoining abandoned mine located near the main shaft. No pumping out of water from the main shaft and no dive were performed on Wednesday.”


Fifteen miners are trapped inside a rat hole mine in Ksan in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district since December 13. Multi agency including Odisha Fire Service, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Indian Navy is working to rescue the trapped miners.