Poisonous gasoline leak inside Pakistan’s Balochistan coal mine kills 6 staff

As many as six staff had been killed and 5 had been hospitalised after a toxic gasoline leak inside a coal mine in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.

Karachi,UPDATED: Mar 4, 2023 01:23 IST

Last week 4 coal miners had been killed and three others injured when unidentified armed assailants attacked them at a mine within the Khost space of the Harnai district (Photo: Representational/AFP)

By Press Trust of India: A toxic gasoline leak inside a coal mine in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday killed at the least six staff with 5 others being hospitalised, officers stated. Rescue officers stated the employees died after the mine was full of gasoline.

“There were 11 workers thousands of feet down in the mine when the poisonous gas trapped them inside. Other coal miners called rescue workers and also did their best to rescue their co-workers but six died due to the gas,” an official stated.

He stated 5 others had been rescued and moved to Shahrag’s fundamental well being unit. Dr Muhammad Akbar, the official on the well being unit, confirmed that they had acquired six our bodies.

The hospital administration handed over the lifeless our bodies of the coal miners to their heirs after the completion of mandatory official procedures. The incident will not be the primary of its sort within the province which is wealthy in pure sources however the place security situations for staff stay unchecked and unsupervised.

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Peer Muhammad Kakar, the central chief of the Pakistan mines affiliation, stated that regardless of their reminders to the federal government departments and authorities involved, staff proceed to work in hazardous situations inside coal mines. “Such incidents have claimed hundreds of lives in the last few years but nobody cares These are death holes, not mines,” he stated.

“The mine owners and contractors have good links with the government and authorities and whenever such incidents happen no action is ever taken against them for negligence. Some compensation is paid to the heirs of the victims and everyone forgets about it,” he added.

Coal mine staff within the province have additionally fallen prey to militant assaults. Just final week, 4 coal miners had been killed and three others injured when unidentified armed assailants attacked them at a mine within the Khost space of the Harnai district.

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Mar 4, 2023