Gas explosion in Balochistan coal mine leaves 12 miners trapped: authorities

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. “An operation has been launched to extract the miners. Efforts are being made to pull all the miners out alive,” he said.

After three hours, Baloch provided an update to Dawn.com stating that no miner had been pulled out...