14 Killed In Balochistan Coal Mine Blast

QUETTA: Fourteen miners were killed and eight others were injured in a coal mine explosion in Sorenje area on Thursday

QUETTA: Fourteen miners were killed and eight others were injured in a coal mine explosion in Sorenje area on Thursday.

Official sources said 37 miners were working in a coal mine in Sorenje area when a blast rocked the mine at 12:10 pm. As a result, 14 workers suffocated to death, eight others were injured while the remaining survived. “We retrieved all the bodies from the debris by afternoon,” said an official while talking to newsmen at the site.

The bodies of seven miners got buried 1,200 feet below the surface following the tragic incident, said an eyewitness who shifted the injured to the Civil Hospital, Quetta.

According to reports, the explosion was caused due to the accumulation of methane, an inflammable gas with tendency to cause explosion, which probably got ignited by some spark.

Hospital sources said the causalities were caused by burns, inflicted by flames, following the explosion. A portion of the mine caved in after the explosion, blocking the exit route and increasing the number of casualties, witnesses said. The mine is owned by the Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC).