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At least 50 miners got buried under tons of rubble in a coal mine collapse at the Lalmatia open-cast coalfields owned by Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) in Godda. Rescuers dug out 12 bodies even as other miners remained trapped under the debris. Officials said all those who have been found dead so far were contractual workers. The miners were hired by Mahalaxmi Engineering Company, a Gujarat-based company sub-leased to carry out excavation of coal mines. The Lalmatia coal mine, which became operational in 1981, comes under the ECL's Rajmahal project. The officials said efforts were on to identify the dead and trapped miners. They added that most of the miners belonged to Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Jharkhand chief secretary Rajbala Verma and DGP DK Pandey rushed to the site a
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