Meghayala: 6 migrant workers from Assam died just after they fell into a 150-feet pit in a forestGuwahati: Six migrant workers from Assam died just after they fell into a 150-feet pit in a forest in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills, the similar district exactly where 15 males disappeared inside an illegal rat-hole mine just after it collapsed in December 2018.Locals alleged the migrant workers whose bodies had been located inside the pit this morning had been digging an illegal coal mine.However, government sources mentioned there is no coal mine in the location and the workers had been involved in cutting and shaping difficult soil for other purposes.The National Green Tribunal has banned coal mining in Meghalaya.Accidents in illegal mines in the north-east state raise severe queries about unchecked coal mining proper below the government’s nose even just after the National Green Tribunal banned it in 2014, atmosphere activists and scientists have mentioned.Freshly reduce blocks of coal becoming carried on the back of open trucks are normally noticed operating on the state’s highways.Meghalaya has an estimated 5,000 illegal rat-hole mines, mainly in East Jaintia hills. After coal mining was banned in 2014, there was a slowdown in financial activities by 70 per cent.
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