Afghanistan: 22 miners rescued from collapsed coal mine

Dec 15, 2024 11:37 PM IST
Rescuers with excavators had been working to open an entrance to the mine since early morning, succeeding after dusk on Sunday.
Rescuers on Sunday freed 22 miners who had been trapped for hours in a collapsed coal mine in northern Afghanistan, a provincial official stated, with no critical accidents reported.
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All of the miners who had been trapped when the mine in Dara-i Sof Payin district of Samangan province collapsed late Saturday had been rescued, Samangan governor spokesman Esmat Muradi, advised AFP, revising the variety of these trapped from 32 right down to 22.
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Rescuers with excavators had been working to open an entrance to the mine since early morning, succeeding after dusk on Sunday.
“Twenty-two folks had been trapped and all of them have been rescued,” Muradi stated.
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“The situation of few of them was not good however they got first assist and are doing higher now.”
There’s scant oversight of Afghanistan’s mining business and lethal accidents are frequent.
Together with coal, Afghanistan mines marble, minerals, gold and gems, however employees usually function in rudimentary pits with out correct gear or security gear.
At the least 10 miners died in February 2022 after being trapped underground when a coal mine collapsed within the northern province of Baghlan.
In June 2020, seven employees had been killed after a gasoline blast triggered a cave-in at a mine in Samangan.
A yr earlier, at the least 30 folks died when a gold mine collapsed in Badakhshan province, the place one other gold mine collapsed in January final yr with unknown casualties.
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