QUETTA: An explosion in a coal mine in Balochistan claimed the lives of six miners, officials with the provincial Directorate of Mines said Friday. They were among eight miners trapped about 1,000.
By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Six miners have been killed in a blast at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan near the border with Afgh.
Six miners have been killed in a blast at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, officials with the provincial Directorate of Mines told Reuters.
Six miners have been killed in a blast at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, officials said on Friday.
They were among eight miners trapped about 1,000 feet underground when accumulating methane gas exploded at the coalfield in Marwar in the province of Balochistan, the officials said.
“Six bodies have been retrieved by the rescue team from the affected mine this morning,” a senior official of the directorate of mines said.
“(The) mine has been closed and an inquiry has been ordered by the Chief Inspector of Mines into the incident.”
A heavy boulder had fallen on eight miners on Thursday afternoon, local rescue official Imdad Khan said.