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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Coal mine blast kills nine in Pakistan

Sun, 03 Jan 2010

Islamabad - An underground explosion in a coal mine in Pakistan's south-western Balochistan province killed nine people, a media report said on Sunday. The blast ripped through a gas-filled mine Saturday at the Marwar coalfield, located 80 kilometers from the provincial capital, Quetta.

Rescuers recovered the bodies after a search operation that continued through Saturday night, local official Farooq Ahmad was quoted as saying by the Geo News television channel.

A similar methane gas explosion in a coal mine elsewhere in the mineral-rich province left 14 miners dead and 11 others injured in March 2009.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/301857,coal-mine-blast-kills-nine-in-pakistan.html.

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