Ranchi: The body of one of four miners trapped yesterday following a roof collapse in a Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) mine in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district was recovered while the remaining three were also feared dead, an official said.
At least 171 other miners were rescued. The men were at work in the BCCL mine in Dhanbad, when the incident occurred.
Police sources said a big stone had fallen on the three trapped miners, and their chances of survival were bleak.
A BCCL official said the roof collapsed at the Basantimata colliery, situated at Nirsa in Dhanbad district, around 240km from Ranchi.
Two minor earthquakes hit Delhi
NEW DELHI: Two minor earthquakes awoke residents of the Indian capital of New Delhi early yesterday, shaking buildings but with no immediate reports of damage.
India’s Meteorological Department (IMD) said first a 3.1-magnitude tremor struck at 12.41 am local time at a depth of 10 kilometres, placing its epicentre in the capital city of nearly 10 million people.
Almost exactly an hour later, a second, marginally larger 3.3-magnitude quake also struck, the IMD said on its website.
An AFP reporter in Delhi said the tremor shook buildings audibly, and that there were at least two minor aftershocks.
Four dead in Mumbai building fire
Mumbai: Four members of a family were burnt to death and 10, including two firemen, were injured in a blaze at a residential building in Mumbai yesterday.
The blaze was reported 3.15 am in the seven-storey Kailash Apartments in Siddharth Nagar of Vikhroli suburb, an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Disaster Control said.
The first flames were noticed on the seventh floor but spread quickly to the sixth and fifth floors, leaving no time for the panicky occupants to escape.
Four members of the Shalivan family, including Gautam (55), his wife Poornima (50), son Vishal (32) and grandson Ayush (10) were burnt to death.
Two killed in Kolkata shoot-out
Kolkata: Two people were shot dead and another was critically injured in the eye in the West Bengal capital yesterday following a clash over a disputed property.
Police said the incident took place in a house where a woman called Mamata Agarwal also ran a nursery school.
The incident occurred a few hundred yards from the official residence of the city police commissioner.
According to police, closed-circuit television camera footage shows a woman opening fire at a group of intruders. The woman, suspected to be Agarwal, and one of her security guards, opened fire when a group of people entered the premises in a bid to take possession of it.
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