At least nine workers are trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state, officials said Tuesday, as authorities summoned the army to help in the rescue operation. The miners became trapped on Monday morning in the Umrangso area in Dima Hasao district,

Six workers are still trapped in the mine while the bodies of two others, whose deaths were confirmed by the state government, are yet to be recovered.

Three miners are feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India ’s northeastern Assam state, authorities said on Tuesday, as rescue teams worked through the night to try to reach the nine men trapped inside.

By Tora Agarwala GUWAHATI (Reuters) -Three miners were feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India's northeastern Assam state, authorities said on Tuesday, and the men were part of a total of nine still trapped as rescue teams worked to reach them.