No Toilet At Home, 3 Jharkhand Women Buried Alive In Field As Land Sinks
Police and mine rescue teams of the BCCL arrived hours later even when they were immediately informed, locals alleged. A large number of police and CISF personnel are present at the spot. Patna: Three women in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad were buried alive on Sunday as land sunk around them while they were out to relieve themselves as they didn’t have toilets at their homes. One of the women was caught in the subsidence first, two others who had accompanied her tried to help, but were buried too. The victims — Parla Devi, Thandhi Devi, and Mandava Devi — lived in the Dhobi Kulhi area of Gondudih colliery — which has unstable old underground workings, and is fire and subsidence affected. The Gondudih Khas Kusunda Colliery is operated by Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited. A huge landslide occurred with a loud noise near Hilltop High-rise outsourcing company near Gondudih colliery in Dhanbad when the women had stepped out to relieve themselves, locals said,...