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At least 34 miners were killed by a methane blast in a coal mine in south-western Pakistan, reported on Friday, and the explosion set off a collapse; rescuers are still searching underground for dozens of trapped workers.
South-western Pakistan is one of the country's coal mining hubs, and methane explosions and mine collapses there are frequent. This topic follows those accidents, the miners caught underground and the rescue operations that follow them.
A methane gas explosion deep inside a coal mine in south-western Pakistan killed at least 34 miners and triggered a collapse that trapped dozens of workers underground, reports said on Friday. Rescuers were searching for missing bodies in one of the country's mining hubs, where methane explosions and mine collapses are frequent.