Four persons, including a coal miner and two officials of the State-owned Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) besides an outsourced worker, were trapped inside the Adriyala Longwall Project (ALP), India’s largest mechanised underground coal mine, in Ramagiri mandal of Telangana’s Peddapalli district, when a portion of the roof of the mine collapsed on Monday afternoon.
Two other coal miners, who were stuck under the rubble inside the coal mine, were rescued by the SCCL’s rescue team personnel later in the day, SCCL sources said.
The incident occurred at hundreds of metres below the surface in the mechanised underground mine, located about 225 km from the State capital Hyderabad, on Monday afternoon.
