In Meghalaya, Divers from the Navy and the NDRF will again begin the rescue operation of the 15 trapped miners inside the flooded coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district today.
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Assistant Commandant Santosh Kumar Singh said that rescue teams went inside the mine on Saturday to conduct a recce and measure the level of accumulated water as part of the rescue operation.
The water level is estimated to be more than 77-80 feet in the vertical shaft of the rat-hole coal mine.
The 15-member Navy team, equipped with specialized diving equipment, arrived at the site on Saturday.
The mine, located on top of a hillock fully covered with trees, had got flooded when water from the nearby river gushed into it on December 13, trapping the 15 diggers.