India, Oct. 26 -- Several workers were trapped around 50 metres underground at a coal mine in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district on Monday after a technical fault in the pulley system halted the movement of the lifting cage, media reports said.

The incident occurred at the Kumardihi A underground mine operated by Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL).

Rescue operations were launched after a rope slipped off the pulley drum, disrupting the mechanism used to transport workers in the cage.

Food, water supplied to trapped workers

ECL Chairman-cum-Managing Director Satish Jha confirmed that there were no casualties and said food and water had been supplied to the trapped workers.

He added that the workers were stranded at a depth of appr...