Five persons, including four women, were announced dead in a coal mine collapse over workers who were trying to carry coal from a hole the mine's open rat hole, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
The accident happened in an old abandoned mine owned by the state-run Cola India corporation; it is located in Jharkhand state, authorities revealed.
They also added that the collapse took place early Tuesday in Gopinathpur town in Dhanbad city, 400 km away from Jharkhand capital, Ranchi.
Dhanbad Senior Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Kumar said that the victims were not legal or professional miners.
He told Reuters: "In that patch, mining work was not going on. Those who died were local coal pickers."
Jharkhand mine collapse was not the only one recorded in India this week as authorities received coal mine collapses on Monday in Kapsara, and Bharat, according to the Times of India.
Until now, mining professions are still the most dangerous jobs worldwide, and the world has recorded various accidents linked to mining in the past few months.
Last year, more than 52 victims were reported in a coal mine explosion due to the methane emissions, including the mine's rescuers.
In China, 29 miners were trapped inside a coal mine in Xinjinag, China, after the mine was flooded by water last year.
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