Miners' families to decide if they want decomposed bodies retrieved

January 17, 2019 18:14

The families of three miners from Lumthari and two miners from Chirang district were called to view a video provided by the Remotely Operated Vehicle and they were informed them that the bodies had decomposed and their retrieval will lead to total disintegration. The families will now have to give their views on whether it would be possible.

This afternoon, naval divers spotted several skeletons inside the rat-hole coal mines in Meghalaya through their remotely operated vehicles. Water inside mines has high sulphur content which can decompose bodies very fast.

Early this morning, navy divers found the body of one of the 15 miners who got trapped in the flooded rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district over a month ago.The Navy divers detected the body using "underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicles) at a depth of approximately 160 feet and 210 feet" inside the rat-hole mine, a Navy spokesperson said on Twitter and attached video grabs of the operation. The body has been pulled up to the mouth of the 370 feet-deep rat-hole mine and would be extricated under the supervision of doctors, the officials said.

Image: Families of the Meghalaya miners who died in the rat-hole mine were shown the skeletons visible through a probe sent to the depths of the mine. Pic: ANI

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