Two hundred miners are trapped in eastern India following the huge blackout that left 600 million people powerless, according to a West Bengal state official and an India Eastern Coalfields executive. The miners are trapped inside a mine in Burdwan, which is about 180 kilometres northwest of Kolkata. The mine is operated by state-owned Eastern Coalfields Ltd. "We are trying to rescue the coal miners," Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal state, told reporters. "All efforts are on to resume power supplies. You need power supplies to run the lifts in the underground mines."

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