Rescue teams on Wednesday recovered the bodies of three persons, including a senior safety officer and a young deputy manager of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) besides a trainee worker, who were trapped under the rubble at the roof collapse site inside the SCCL’s mechanised underground coal mine in Telangana’s Peddapalli district, in a sad end to the 36-hour-long rescue mission.
Monday’s devastating mishap in the SCCL’s Adriyala Longwall Project’s mechanised mine claimed the lives of the government-owned coal company’s Area Safety Officer Jayaraj, 56, Deputy Manager Teja, 32, and trainee worker at the Vocational Training Centre (VTC), Srikanth, 24.
The rescue teams in the first 26 hours of the rescue mission, involving around 150 personnel, managed to pull out three SCCL’s coal miners from the debris caused by the roof-cum-side wall collapse at the 86 th level, more than 500 metres deep from the surface inside the underground mine.
