Four killed as coalmine caves in Balochistan
QUETTA: Four coalminers were killed when a mine they were operative in caved in on them in Sor Range Coalfield, located some 16 kilometres easterly of Quetta, on Wednesday.
Bakht Nawab, a boss of a Pakistan Mines Workers Federation told media that rescue teams of a Balochistan mines and minerals growth dialect reached a site shortly after receiving a information and pulled a bodies out.
They had been buried underneath 3 feet of debris, he said.
The defunct miners were identified as Abdul Qayyum, Muhammad Irfan, Ali Rehman and Kashmir.
43 passed in Sorange cave blast, no survivors
According to Nawab, a occurrence took place in cave 98 where about 100 people were operative during a time. The cave is run by a state-owned Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation.
The bodies were sent to their local towns following medico-legal formalities.
Balochistan’s coalmines are scandalous for unsafe operative conditions and workers die on avocation regularly.
In 2015, 8 miners died during a Duki Coalfield in Loralai district when a methane buildup caused an explosion, trapping them in. It took 3 days to collect their bodies since rescue officials had to be called in from Quetta, that is around 300 kilometers away.
Similarly, maybe in a deadliest such occurrence so far, some-more than 40 miners died during Sor Range in 2011 in a identical occurrence of a gas buildup blast and successive land sliding.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1418236/four-killed-coalmine-caves-balochistan/