The Odisha fire and disaster team pump water from an old shaft near the coal mine that collapsed in Meghalaya in December-end, 2018. PTIThe bodies of two miners were recovered from an illegal coal mine located at a remote village in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, police said on Monday. The bodies were found late on Saturday from the coal mine in Jalyiah village, a few kilometres away from the district headquarters of Khliehriat, they added. The body was found near the entrance of the coal mine," superintendent of police (SP) of East Jaintia Hills district Sylvester Nongtynger told PTI. The bodies were recovered almost a month after 15 miners were reported trapped in another illegal coal mine located in Ksan, highlighting that illegal coal mining continued despite the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ban on unsafe mining since 2014.

Source: The Telegraph January 07, 2019 11:15 UTC