Coal mine blast kills nine in Pakistan
January 3rd, 2010 - 3:58 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Islamabad, Jan 3 (DPA) An underground explosion in a coal mine in Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province killed nine people, a media report said Sunday.
The blast ripped through a gas-filled mine Saturday at the Marwar coalfield, located 80 km from the provincial capital, Quetta.
Rescuers recovered the bodies after a search operation that continued through Saturday night, local official Farooq Ahmad was quoted as saying by the Geo News television channel.
A similar methane gas explosion in a coal mine elsewhere in the mineral-rich province left 14 miners dead and 11 injured in March 2009.
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