ISLAMABAD, Jul 12 (NNN-APP) – Several labourers were trapped, after an explosion happened inside a coal mine in Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province yesterday, local reports said.
The labourers were working inside the mine, in the Marwar area of the provincial capital of Quetta, when the explosion happened, due to the accumulation of toxic gas inside the mine, the reports added.
Rescue work to retrieve the trapped miners is underway.
Coal mines in the province are infamous for occasional blasts, in which scores of people have lost their lives.
Earlier in March, 13 people were killed in two coal mine explosions in the province.
