SHANGLA – All the eight coalmine workers, who have lost their lives by poisonous gas in a coalmine, were laid to rest in district Shangla on Tuesday.A toxic gas leakage on Monday killed eight coalminers in Duki area of Loralai district of Balochistan when they were working inside a mine. ...

Seven miners were killed when the roof of a coalmine collapsed in a tribal region of northwest Pakistan, officials said on Monday.The accident happened on Sunday night in the Dowli area of Orakzai, one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal regions which are home to Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked ...

QUETTA - Five mineworkers died Thursday when a coalmine caved in after a powerful explosion in Dagari area of Mastung district, about 35 kilometres southeast of Quetta Thursday. According to Balochistan Mines Chief Inspector Iftikhar Ahmed, the incident took place at Sardar Gohar Coal Company in ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday expressed grief over the killing of miners, as the coalmine collapsed due to a blast in Sorenj Coal Field near Quetta yesterday. In a message, the President condoled with the families of the deceased and prayed Allah Almighty to grant them courage to bear the ...

QUETTA - Fourteen miners died while 19 others sustained injuries when a coalmine caved in due to a blast in the Soranje coalfield area, some 25km from here on Thursday. According to official sources, poisonous gas which had accumulated in the coalmine, caused explosion killing 14 miners and ...

One miner died and two fell fainted in a coalmine filled with poisonous gas at Daki area of the district here. Sources said that coal was being extracted from a mine of Daki coalfield, when the mine suddenly got filled with poisonous gas, resulting in the death of one miner Hikmatullah, while ...