All 43 miners confirmed dead in mine blast

An explosion at a state-owned coal mine in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Sunday killed all 43 miners, officials said Tuesday. Search-and-rescue operations have been called off.

By News Wires (text)

AFP - All 43 miners in a coal mine in southwest Pakistan hit by a blast at the weekend have been confirmed dead, officials said Tuesday, as rescuers ended their search operation.

"All 43 bodies have been recovered," Iftikhar Ahmed, provincial chief inspector of mines for the insurgency-torn Baluchistan province, told AFP.

"There are no survivors and the mine is being sealed," Ahmed said.

Date created : 20/03/2011

Comments (2)

All 43 Miners Confirmed Dead !!

by Ah$@N (not verified) - 30/03/2011 - 04:48

This has been assumed that they were dead as the rescue facilities and safety measures bears a great cost. And the contractors only care to display the saftey equipment and signs that they have all the saftey equipments and gadgets but unfortunately in fact those are only for display. The poor workers work without them either not avialable or not enough for all of them only supervisors or owner's watchdog could access them. I feel extremely sorry for the poor workers and their families who are themselves a victim and no compansation whatsoever are being offered to them in return. Moreover they are being told that the accident was made due to their own faults by neglecting the safety procedures. I wish that the cause of accident could have been investigated so that such accidents could be prevented in other mines of the areas where mine workers lives are in threat.

Thanks.