Two persons were buried alive when an illegal mine caved-in, under Alagdiha out post under at Jharia police station in Dhanbad district on Monday morning.
The bodies are yet to recover, said an eyewitness. According to another eyewitness dozens of women entered into an abounded mine for mining coal, suddenly it was caved in and three of two of them were trapped and buried alive.
Notably, each and every day hundreds of the village women used to mine and collect the soil (coal mixed) to prepare ‘Gul’ which they used to sell in the market and to cook food in this coal belt region.