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Search and rescue operation underway after at least 18 miners were killed and several others were feared trapped following an explosion in an illegal coal mining site, in East Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya. | Photo: PTI
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At least 18 miners were killed in a blast, and several others feared trapped in an illegal coal mining site in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district. Heaps of freshly mined coal lying near a coke factory in Dkhiah, few kilometres away from the coal mine. | Photo: PTI file photo
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At least 18 miners were killed in a blast, and several others feared trapped in an illegal coal mining site in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district. | Photo: PTI file photo
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Search and rescue operation underway after at least 18 miners were killed and several others were feared trapped following an explosion in an illegal coal mining site, in East Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya. | Photo: PTI
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Family members wail amid a search and rescue operation after at least 18 miners were killed and several others were feared trapped following an explosion in an illegal coal mining site, in East Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya. | Photo: PTI
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Smoke billows after an explosion at an illegal coal mine, in East Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya. | Photo: PTI
