The Indian Navy team is fully equipped and carrying specialized equipment such as deep diving gears and underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVS) for search and rescue operations in Assam’s Umrangso. The team includes highly trained Clearance Divers, experts in deep-water recovery, and the underwater ROVS for the search and rescue. Earlier, the Indian Navy had mobilized a specialized rescue team to aid in the recovery of the trapped miners. The team comprising one officer and eleven sailors, has been mobilized to assist in rescuing miners trapped in a remote mining accident in the Dima Hasao district.
Meanwhile, one dead body had been recovered from the collapsed coal mine at 3 Kilo, Umrangso, where nine miners were trapped on January 6. According to a statement from an NDRF official, one body has been recovered by the divers of NDRF, the Indian army. The joint rescue operation led by the Indian Army, Assam Rifles, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), and other agencies resumed early morning to rescue nine miners trapped in a coal mine in the 3 Kilo area of Umrangso, Dima Hasao.
