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At least five coal miners and two rescuers died due to suffocation after a methane gas fire broke out in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan. This is the second mine disaster in the region within a week. The fire took place at a mine in the Tor Ghar area of Harnai district, about 170 km west of the provincial capital Quetta, late on Monday, reported Al Jazeera citing government official Sohail Anwer Hashmi. "The coal miners entered inside the mine to fill the cracks caused by [the] fire, but they died of asphyxia caused by the deadly methane gas," Hashmi said.

Image Credit: SUBMITTED February 06, 2021 - 2:36 PM A GoFundMe that was started for the family of a miner who died in a “mud rush” accident near Kamloops has raised almost $100,000 in three days. Raymond Rosenberg, 35, died following the accident at New Afton Mine near Kamloops, Feb. 2. Two other workers were also injured in the mud rush. The contract driller’s body was recovered Feb. 3. An online fundraiser that was set up Feb. 3 by relative Tasha Gruber had an initial goal of raising $25,000 for Rosenberg’s partner Keisha Gronning and their four children. As of F...

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry a miner who was trapped in a gold mine in Qixia City in east China's Shandong Province, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Rescuers in China on Sunday lifted several trapped miners to the surface who were trapped for two weeks after an explosion in a northern gold mine, state media reported. - Xinhua/AP BEIJING, Jan 24 (Reuters): Chinese rescuers pulled 11 gold miners to safety on Sunday, 14 days after they were trapped by an underground explosion, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Footage showed the first miner to be rescued, a ...

12:55 PM MYT This photo taken on Jan 20, 2021 shows members of a rescue team working at the site of a gold mine explosion where 22 miners are trapped underground in Qixia, in eastern China's Shandong province. - AFP BEIJING, Jan 24, 2021 (AFP): Rescue workers on Sunday lifted out the first of 22 miners trapped for two weeks hundreds of metres underground in an east China mine, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The man, discovered Sunday in a separate section of the mine to the 10 workers who had already established contact with rescuers, was in "extremely weak physical conditio...