Indian Navy divers recovered the body of one of the nine miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district on Wednesday. They were trapped on Monday after the mine became inundated with water.

GUWAHATI: The body of one of the nine miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao was retrieved on Wednesday even as hopes of rescuing the others began fading. The deceased was identified as Ganga Bahadur Srestho from Nepal.

On Monday morning, at least nine workers aged between 26 and 57 were trapped in a coal mine in 3 Kilo, Umrangso, in the hilly district of Dima Hasao.

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.

Indian Navy team equipped with deep diving gear and ROVs aiding in search and rescue operations in Assam's Umrangso.

The body of one of the nine workers trapped inside a coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district was recovered by army divers on Wednesday, the third day of the rescue operations, officials said.

Three miners were feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India's northeastern Assam state, authorities said on Tuesday, and the men were part of a total of nine still trapped as rescue teams worked to reach them.

Rescuers try to reach nine men trapped in a flooded coal mine in India's Assam:::: Authorities say at least three miners are feared deadIn a statement the local government said three bodies have been spotted by rescue teams but have not yet been recovered.

In response to a tragic incident at a coal mine in the remote “3 Kilo” area of the Dima Hasao region, close to the Assam-Meghalaya border, the Indian Army and NDRF have launched a swift Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) mission to aid in rescue operations.

Three miners were feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India's north-eastern Assam state, authorities said on Tuesday, as rescue teams worked through the night to try to reach a total of nine men trapped inside.