Gas suffocation in coal mine kills miner
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The laborers were working in a coalmine in Tala-o-Barfak district on Saturday when a poisonous gas leaked and resultantly a miner was killed and another fainted, the statement said, adding the fainted miner had been taken to hospital.
A coal miner lost his life and another went unconscious due to gas suffocation in a coal mine in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province on Saturday, said a statement from the provincial police office released Sunday.
The labourers were working in a coal mine in the Tala-o-Barfak district on Saturday when a poisonous gas leaked and resultantly a miner was killed and another fainted, the statement said.
It added that the fainted miner had been taken to hospital.
Non-standard mining, poor equipment and unskilled workers to extract the underground treasures, according to Afghans, often claim the lives of miners in Afghanistan.
(Xinhua/NAN)
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