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All 14 miners rescued after lift cages jam in Bengal coal mine

All 14 miners rescued after lift cages jam in Bengal coal mine

The workers were stuck about 50 metres underground at ECL's Kumardihi A mine after a rope slipped off the pulley drum.

All 14 workers trapped in an underground coal mine in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district have been rescued.

They were stranded in two lifting cages about 50 metres down after a pulley fault on Monday.

Eastern Coalfields chairman Satish Jha confirmed there were no casualties.