Blast at Pakistan coal mine complex kills at least 11, dozens missing, official says

At least 11 coal miners were killed and dozens are missing after an explosion buried parts of a mining complex in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Thursday, an official said. Shoaib Nosherwani, Balochistan’s minister for mines and mineral development, told Reuters that 36 people were in the collapsed part of the complex at the time of […]

Several workers feared trapped after explosion in private coal mine near Quetta: officials

QUETTA: An explosion in a private coal mine in the Sorange area of Balochistan’s provincial capital on Thursday trapped several miners, said an official. Labour leader Pir Muhammad Kakar told Dawn that around 25 workers were inside the mine at the time of the explosion. “Three miners were rescued after the explosion. Around 22 workers remain trapped inside the mine,” Kakar said. “All available resources should be mobilised immediately to rescue the trapped workers,” he appealed to the authori...

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Two dead as methane blast collapses coal mine in Balochistan's Sorange, traps over two dozen miners

Three miners have been rescued from the site

By Syed Ali Shah