<b>Dhanbad mine tragedy:</b> 39 retrieved from mine

Rescuers today identified 46 bodies of the 50 trapped at a coal mine in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district and brought out 39 of them, a senior official said.

"Forty-six bodies have been identified and of them 39 have been brought out and sent for post-mortem," Deputy Commissioner Bela Rajes said.

Asked what the final toll would be, sbe replied "I think it will be 50."

The miners got trapped inside the Nagda colliery of Eastern Coalfields  at Bhatdhi on September six after an explosion. Initially 57 miners were inside, but some managed to escape.

Union Coal Minister Shibu Soren, who visited the accident site yesterday, has announced a compensation of Rs three lakh each to the families of the deceased workers and a job for their next of kin.

Soren also ordered a departmental inquiry into the accident.