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The reprehensible slaughter of Mach coal miners S M Hali
The New Year, which was expected to usher in glad tidings in the wake of the challenges of COVID-19 and the political impasse created by the opposition, instead, revived the horrors of terrorism, supposedly on the decline. The horrendous strike occurred in Pakistan’s soft underbelly, Balochistan and the victims are the hapless Hazaras. According to reports, eleven coal miners were killed after unidentified men kidnapped and were later slaughtered at the Mach coalfield of Bolan district, around 80km away from Quetta in Balochistan on Sunday, January 3, 2021. Four other miners were seriously injured. According to officials, the miners shared a residential room near the coal mine where they worked.