QUETTA: At least 8 miners were killed while another 3 injured in two separate incidents of explosions in Spin Carez and Marwar mines located in Balochistan on Wednesday, Geo news reported.
The chief inspector mines said, the explosion occurred in a Muree Coal Company due to gas leakage which killed five miners whose corpses have been obtained from debris while some miners are still stranded under the rubble.
He said freezing winter weather has also contributed to undermine rescue efforts meanwhile, in another incident of explosion, the coal mine located in Spin Carez had explosion due to gas spill and trapped five miners under the debris.
Subsequently, local people on their own, rescued all of them from destroyed mines but 3 among them died of suffocation while 3 injured miners have been admitted to hospital, sources said.
Dead bodies of deceased miners have been dispatched to their native places, sources added.
