Afghan official: coal mine blast, collapse kills 6 miners
An Afghan official says at least six coal miners have been killed when an explosion in a coal mine caused two separate tunnels to collapse in northern Samangan province.
An Afghan official says at least six coal miners have been killed when an explosion in a coal mine caused two separate tunnels to collapse in northern Samangan province.
This is the heavy duty work he began as a slight 12yearold, along with hundreds of other Afghan children who work in mines across the country. The smaller and younger they are, the more they are preferred by coal mining operators to fit into small spaces underground and extract Afghanistans quot;black goldquot;, a primary source of fuel in the country.
At least 27 Afghan miners have been killed in the collapse of a coal mine in the northern province of Samangan, with around a dozen surviving miners thought to be still trapped underground.
An Afghan official says at least five coal miners have been killed in a tunnel collapse.
An explosion at a coal mine in northern Afghanistan has killed 11 people. The miners, who were all working at the site without government permission, died after an explosion triggered a collapse
Article content. KABUL An Afghan official says at least six coal miners have been killed when an explosion in a coal mine caused two separate tunnels to collapse in northern Samangan province.
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Afghan official: coal mine blast, collapse kills 6 miners April 9, 2019 GMT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) An Afghan official says at least six coal miners have been killed when an explosion in a coal mine caused two separate tunnels to collapse in northern Samangan province.
Afghan gold deposits (Credit: British Geological Survey) At least 30 Afghans were killed on Sunday when the tunnel they were digging in to mine gold in northern Afghanistan collapsed, officials said.
Afghan miners killed in coal mine collapse Published by MAC on Source: Al Jazeera () Afghan miners killed in coal mine collapse. Officials say tunnel collapse at Abkhorak mine in northern Samangan province has killed at least 24 workers. Al Jazeera. 15 September 2013
Originally published on September 15, 2013 At least 27 miners were killed in a collapse in a coal mine in Afghanistan''s northern province of Samangan on Saturday evening (September 15). It is believed at least 13 other miners could still be trapped in the mine.
Blast at Afghan coal mine kills 7: official posted June 10, 2020 at 02:00 pm by AFP Seven workers were killed and several more feared dead in northern Afghanistan after a gas explosion caused a coal mine to collapse, an official said on Wednesday.
Afghan official: coal mine blast, collapse kills 6 miners Afghan official says at least six coal miners have been killed when an explosion in a coal mine caused two separate tunnels to collapse
#0183;#32;Mine collapse At least 27 Afghan miners were killed and 22 were wounded in Samangan province on Saturday when the coal mine they were working in collapsed (
On August 30, 2012 an explosion killed 45 people at the Xiaojiawan coal mine in Sichuan province. A few days later on September 3, 2012 14 miners were killed at Gaokeng Coal Mine in Jiangxi province. On March 29, 2013, a landslide trapped 83 people in the Gyama Mine in Tibet.
Close to 30 killed in Afghanistan mine collapse. An Afghan miner unloads coal from his donkeys outside a mine in Samangan province on April 3, 2012. Qais Usyan / AFP Getty Images, file.
''At least 27'' Afghan miners killed in collapse. Published Provincial governor''s spokesman Mohammad Seddiq Azizi said that the men had been working at the Abkhorak coal mine
Afghanistan Coal Mine: Seven workers were killed and several more feared dead in northern Afghanistan after a gas explosion caused a coal mine to collapse, an official said on Wednesday.