Shillong: Indian Navy divers will in the exhaustive rescue operations which are in progress to save 15 miners who are stranded inside a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya.  The existence chances are miserable for the 15 miners who are stranded inside a flooded rat-hole coal mine since December 13.

The Navy spokesperson stated in a tweet that a 15-member diving team from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh will arrive the site in the remote Lumthari village in East Jaintia Hills district Saturday morning.

 Worth mention here on Friday, 20 pumps were flown in by the Indian Air Force. As per latest reports, the rescuers from the Air Force and the Coal India are now on their way travelling 200 km to the accurate spot to rescue the miners stranded for a fortnight. Superintendent of Police Sylvester Mongtynger stated two teams from Kirloskar Brothers Ltd also reached on Thursday to help in rescuing operations of the miners trapped in the 370-foot-deep illegal mine.

Before this on Thursday, a 21-member team of fire fighters from Odisha, who was airlifted by Indian Air Force's C-130J Super Hercules from Bhubaneswar to the Guwahati airport, have started operation towards the site at Ksan village in East Jaintia Hills district.

The banned rat-hole coal mine is situated at Lumthari village near Khliehriat, the headquarters of East Jaintia Hills district. It got flooded when water from nearby Lytein River gushed into it on December 13, stranding the 15 diggers.