Rayan oram - Rayan Oram: Well

Attempts to retrieve him the way he fell in were unsuccessful because the shaft, roughly 18 inches wide at ground level, narrowed to about 8 inches about 75 feet down, and took a turn near the bottom.

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PTI The rat-hole mine at Umpleng, about 20 km from Khliehriat, the headquarters of East Jaintia Hills district, was flooded trapping five migrant workers four from Assam and one from Tripura- after a dynamite explosion on 30 May.

Because of the high demand for water and the advancing drought, which was one of the indirect causes of the in 2016, the locals have to dig deeper and deeper to tap into underground waters.