{"id":3055,"date":"2024-06-04T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T08:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2024-06-04T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T08:52:15","slug":"at-least-11-killed-after-inhaling-methane-gas-inside-balochistan-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/at-least-11-killed-after-inhaling-methane-gas-inside-balochistan-coal-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 11 killed after inhaling methane gas inside Balochistan coal mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>At least 11 people lost their lives after inhaling methane gas inside a coal mine in the Sanjdi area, some 50 km from Quetta, according to Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which took place on Monday, claimed the lives of nine coal miners, a coal company manager, and a contractor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The coal miners were working around 1,500 feet deep in the mine when the gas eruption started and quickly spread to the place. All the coal miners fell unconscious,&#8221; Abdul Ghani Shahwani, Chief Inspector of Mines in Balochistan, told Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>He added that after entering the mine at approximately five o&#8217;clock in the evening with a contractor and manager, it was discovered that there was no signal coming from the mine after 1.5 hours.<br \/>\nThe Mines Department&#8217;s rescue crews, following no response, raced to the site of the incident.<br \/>\nNo one was found alive when rescuers entered the mine, having first taken safety precautions and vented the gas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the nine miners and two others were found dead deep inside the mine,&#8221; the official said, adding that bodies were shifted to a nearby health facility, where they died, as per Dawn.<br \/>\nThe chief inspector stated that the mine belonged to the United Coal Mining Company and that all the miners who lost their lives came from Swat.<br \/>\nAn investigation into the incident is underway. The coal mine has been sealed as of now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 11 people lost their lives after inhaling methane gas inside a coal mine in the Sanjdi area, some 50 km from Quetta, according to Dawn. The incident, which took place on Monday, claimed the lives of nine coal miners, a coal company manager, and a contractor. &#8220;The coal miners were working around 1,500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}