India, Feb. 19 -- The bodies of five workers, who had been missing since last month after an illegal coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district got flooded, were recovered by rescue workers on Wednesday.

On January 6, nine workers got trapped in an illegal rathole coal mine at Umrangso following flooding from an underground aquifer. The bodies of four of them were recovered. However, the five others had remained untraced.

"Bodies of all five workers who had remained missing for the past 44 days were found on Wednesday by rescue workers from NDRF (National Disaster Response Force), Indian Army and other agencies after the water level in the mine, which is around 300-feet deep, came down to nearly one foot," Simanta Kumar Das, deputy commis...