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At least 18 miners were killed and six injured after a coalmine collapsed in Marwar area of Balochistan’s Quetta district on Saturday, Pakistani media reported.
The bodies of 16 miners trapped in the mine were retrieved during the rescue operation, while six labourers were recovered with injuries and shifted to the Civil Hospital in Quetta.
Deputy Commissioner Quetta Dr Farrukh Atique and other officials from the provincial disaster management authority reached the site of the incident and supervised rescue efforts.
Personnel of Frontier Corps, Levies and Quick Response Force were also on the spot to recover the trapped miners.
According to the Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (PCMLF), between 100 and 200 labourers die on average in coalmine accidents every year. At least 11 miners died during two such incidents in mines of Darra Adam Khel and Jhelum last month.