Rescue operations by multiple state and central agencies continued for the fourth day on Thursday to locate trapped miners inside an illegal rat-hole coal mine in Dima Hasao district of Assam, officials said.

( MENAFN - IANS) Guwahati, Jan 9 (IANS) The rescue effort by specialised Indian Navy divers continued at the coal mine in Assam's Umrangso locality in the Dima Hasao district where at least eight labourers are still trapped, officials said on Thursday.

Indian authorities have summoned the army to help rescue at least nine workers who are trapped inside a flooded coal mine in the country's northeastern Assam state.

The Indian Navy has dispatched a specialised team to assist in the rescue of miners trapped in the flooded coal mine in Umrangso, a remote industrial town in Dima Hasao district of Assam.

The body of one of the trapped labourers in a coal mine in Umrangso locality in Assam's Dima Hasao district was recovered by the para divers, said Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday.

The body of a miner was recovered from a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India's northeastern state of Assam on Wednesday, two days into the search for nine men trapped below ground. The mine,

Rescuers in India are racing against time to bring out miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in the north-eastern state of Assam. Three of the nine men inside were feared dead, Reuters reported, after the state government said rescue teams had spotted some bodies they have been unable to reach.