Ranchi, July 24 -- "The voices were coming from inside. They were alive, crying for help. But the entrance was sealed. They let them die."
A local resident, requesting anonymity, described the aftermath of the Jamunia mine collapse in Dhanbad's Baghmara block, where multiple labourers are feared dead in an illegal coal shaft.
Days after the incident, state authorities have yet to acknowledge the deaths, fuelling allegations
of a deliberate cover-up.
Political leaders visiting the site have accused coal mafia networks and sections of the administration of orchestrating what they call a mass burial. Jamshedpur West MLA Saryu Roy and Giridih MP Chandra Prakash Choudhary, who visited Jamunia together, said the collapse resembled "homicide, ...