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34 workers k!lled in Pakistan coal mine blast

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34 workers k!lled in Pakistan coal mine blast

A blast at a coal mine k!lled at least 34 workers in southern Pakistan, the provincial disaster agency said on Friday, as rescuers searched for more missing miners.

The explosion, suspected to be caused by methane gas, tore through the mine near the capital of the resource-rich province of Balochistan on Thursday, sparking a rescue operation that ran through the night.
“According to information received from the deployed teams, 34… bodies have been recovered,” southern Balochistan’s provincial disaster management authority said in a statement in the early hours of Friday.
“The joint rescue operation is still underway to locate and recover the remaining trapped miners,” it added, without specifying how many were in the mine when the explosion took place.
Witnesses said that after hearing the blast, an unknown number of miners in the area rushed to try to reach workers inside.
“Other miners descended into the mine after the explosion for a rescue operation, but they also died,” Ahmed Zada, a mine worker at the site, told AFP.
Relatives, rescuers, and miners gathered at the mine entrance in Sorange, around 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the provincial capital Quetta, as the rescue operations were carried out.
Rescuers and workers helped carry bodies out of the concrete tunnel, some covered in black soot.

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