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Six villagers from Assam’s Golaghat district died when a fire broke out in an illegal mine. The failure of rains pushed them to take up the hazardous work.
Almost two weeks passed and several nearly successful attempts were also made but to no avail. It was then that a 12-member team of rat-hole mining experts was called in for manual drilling
Primarily used in Meghalaya to extract coal, environmentalists and human rights groups alike have been sounding the alarm on the practice for harming the environment and employing children.
Dix, who calls the rescue opertaion a 'modern miracle,' says that law should enable things like infrastructure and not be used for settling scores.
These Rat-Hole Miners, as they are called are Hasan, Munna Qureshi, Naseem Malik, Nasir Khan, Firoz Qureshi, Rashid Ansari, and Irshad Ansari, along with Monu Kumar, Saurabh, Jatin Kumar, Ankur, Devendra who come from Delhi and Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh.