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QUETTA: Twelve miners were killed and eight rescued after an explosion in a coal mine in south-western Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday.
Chief Mine Inspector Abdul Ghani Baloch of Balochistan province stated on Wednesday morning that the rescue effort had just been finished.
He claimed that an explosion of methane gas occurred overnight when 20 men were inside the mine.
He said that while the survivors were being transported to hospitals, the rescue teams had found twelve bodies.
Coal deposits are found in the western areas of Pakistan that sit near the Afghan border and mine accidents are common, mainly due to gas build-ups.
Mine workers have complained that a lack of safety gear and poor working conditions are the key causes of frequent accidents, labour union officials have said in the past.
Three miners lost their lives in a coal mine disaster in the Shangla district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) in October 2023 at the Darra Adam Khel area.
The tragedy occurred in a coal mine in the Kale Khel region as a result of exposure to toxic gasses. This is the second time in a week that a Shangla coal worker has died in an incident like this.
A few days before, unknown gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed a miner manager from Shangla in Quetta, Balochistan.