5 coal miners, 2 rescuers killed in coal mining disaster in Balochistan s Harnai district ANI | Updated: Mar 17, 2021 02:21 IST
Quetta [Pakistan], March 17 (ANI): At least five coal miners and two rescuers died due to suffocation after a methane gas fire broke out in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan. This is the second mine disaster in the region within a week.
The fire took place at a mine in the Tor Ghar area of Harnai district, about 170 km west of the provincial capital Quetta, late on Monday, reported Al Jazeera citing government official Sohail Anwer Hashmi. The coal miners entered inside the mine to fill the cracks caused by [the] fire, but they died of asphyxia caused by the deadly methane gas, Hashmi said.