ISLAMABAD, Mac 20 (NNN-APP) – Twelve miners were killed and eight others rescued, after an explosion in a coal mine in south-western Pakistan, officials said today.
“The rescue operation has been just completed,” said Balochistan province’s chief inspector of mines, Abdul Ghani Baloch, this morning. He said that, 20 miners had been inside the mine, when a methane gas explosion took place overnight.
He added that, rescue teams recovered 12 bodies, while the survivors had been taken to hospital.– NNN-APP
