{"id":89067,"date":"2025-01-09T22:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/gas-explosion-in-balochistan-coal-mine-leaves-12-miners-trapped-authorities\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:45:54","slug":"gas-explosion-in-balochistan-coal-mine-leaves-12-miners-trapped-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/gas-explosion-in-balochistan-coal-mine-leaves-12-miners-trapped-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas explosion in Balochistan coal mine leaves 12 miners trapped: authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twelve miners were trapped on Thursday after an explosion caused a coal mine outside of Quetta to collapse, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Dawn.com<\/em>, Chief Mines Officer Abdul Ghani Baloch said that a gas explosion caused a coal mine in the Sanjdi area to collapse from the inside. \u201cAn operation has been launched to extract the miners. Efforts are being made to pull all the miners out alive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

After three hours, Baloch provided an update to Dawn.com<\/em> stating that no miner had been pulled out, but efforts to extricate them were ongoing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in an official statement, Balochistan government spokesperson Shahid Rind acknowledged the collapse and said that rescue teams had arrived at the site.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are reports of twelve workers being trapped in the mine,\u201d Rind added.<\/p>\n

Balochistan Minister for Mining and Minerals Mir Shoaib Noshirwani ordered Chief Mines Officer Baloch to send two more teams to participate in rescue operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf prevailing mining procedures were violated, legal action should be taken against the mine owner,\u201d Noshirwani warned, ordering rescuers to expedite efforts to extract the trapped miners.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strict implementation of safety measures in mines should be ensured to protect workers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Accidents are common in coal mines of the country, mainly due to gas build-ups.<\/p>\n

Mine workers have complained that a lack of safety gear and poor working conditions are the key causes of frequent accidents, labour union officials have in the past.<\/p>\n

In June last year, at least 11 people died after inhaling methane gas<\/a> inside a coal mine in the Sanjdi area, some 50 kilometres from Quetta. The victims included nine coal miners, a coal company manager and a contractor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coal miners were working around 1,500 feet deep in the mine when the gas eruption started and quickly spread to the place. All the coal miners fell unconscious,\u201d Abdul Ghani Shahwani, Chief Inspector of Mines in Balochistan, told Dawn<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The next day, the mine owner was booked<\/a> for alleged negligence. The case registered on the complaint of the Balochistan government also booked officials over their failure to ensure the miner\u2019s compliance with safety standards.<\/p>\n\n

With input from Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twelve miners were trapped on Thursday after an explosion caused a coal mine outside of Quetta to collapse, authorities said. Speaking to Dawn.com, Chief Mines Officer Abdul Ghani Baloch said that a gas explosion caused a coal mine in the Sanjdi area to collapse from the inside. \u201cAn operation has been launched to extract the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2025\/01\/09232913c3a699c.jpg?r=233238","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}