Jharkhand Coal Workers

For coal mine workers in Jharkhand, each election offers a measure of hope to improve their miserable social and economic fortunes but each, ultimately, dissolves into nothingness, each day filled with long hours of toil buried underground.

A 58-year-old coal miner was killed Monday allegedly after being trapped in an underground mine at the Barka-Sayal area of Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) in Ramgarh, police said.

Three employees of the South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), including a mining supervisor, were choked to death in a non-functional tunnel of an underground coal mine in Chhattisgarh's Korba district.

Rescuers pulled out two more bodies today from the rubble of a collapsed coal mine in Jharkhand, taking the number of deaths to 10, police said, as many were still feared trapped. A massive mound of earth caved in late Thursday at the Lalmatia open cast mine, burying at least 23 miners and dozens of vehicles as hundreds of workers battled overnight...

For coal mine workers in Jharkhand, each election offers a measure of hope to improve their miserable social and economic fortunes but each, ultimately, dissolves into nothingness, each day filled with long hours of toil buried underground.

A 58-year-old coal miner was killed Monday allegedly after being trapped in an underground mine at the Barka-Sayal area of Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) in Ramgarh, police said.

Three employees of the South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), including a mining supervisor, were choked to death in a non-functional tunnel of an underground coal mine in Chhattisgarh's Korba district.

Rescuers pulled out two more bodies today from the rubble of a collapsed coal mine in Jharkhand, taking the number of deaths to 10, police said, as many were still feared trapped. A massive mound of earth caved in late Thursday at the Lalmatia open cast mine, burying at least 23 miners and dozens of vehicles as hundreds of workers battled overnight...