QUETTA: Four workers were killed after being hit by a landslide inside a coalmine in Shahrag, a coalfield area in Harnai district, on Saturday.
Rescue officials said the landslide took place when miners were digging coal inside the mine. They were trapped in the mine.
After receiving information about the incident, officials of the local administration and Directorate of Mines rushed to the site along with rescue workers who immediately launched a rescue operation.
The rescue teams, however, could not save the lives of the four miners and found them dead when they reached deep inside the mine. “All the four coalminers were found dead and their bodies were recovered,” an official of the local administration said.
Mine landslide kills four in Harnai
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Four people have been killed during a landslide in a coal mine in Shahraq area of Harnai district.
According to Levies sources, all the four bodies were retrieved from under the debris after six-hour hectic efforts.
An official of the mines department, who was present on the spot, told Radio Pakistan that the labourers were digging coal deep inside the mine when they got stuck due to the landslide.
The official added two of the deceased belong to Swat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while the two others hail from Afghanistan.
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