QUETTA: Three more coalminers have been killed in separate accidents inside mines in Marwar and Machh mines areas in Balochistan.
Reports reaching on Monday said that due to absence of rescue plan and protective equipments, two coalminers were killed on the spot when a mud avalanche fell on five colliers working inside a coalmine in Marwar coalmine area.
The victims were identified as Wali Khan and Abdul Kareem. Wali Khan was resident of Toba Achakzai and Abdul Kareem of Killi Manzari area of Pishin district. Their bodies have been handed over to the heirs.
The Marwar coalmines area is located in outskirts of the provincial capital Quetta.
Separately, another coalminer identified as Haroon was killed when a trolley hit him inside a coalmine in Machh area. His body was shifted to Machh civil hospital.
Senior geoscientist and expert on mining technology Razzaq Khan Khilji told reporters that the trolleys which were used to shift coalminers into mines in Balochistan had very weak ropes which usually broke, causing deaths of coalminers.
He regretted that thanks to apathy of relevant government departments, coalmine owners and contractor companies, no alternative rescue route and ventilation for safe escape of colliers in case of accident inside the mine and emission of methane gas respectively were being set up inside the mines of Balochistan adding that such negligence had causing deaths of coalminers in accidents every year.
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