6. Coal Mine Blast in Pakistan
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| Image credit: Ahmad Saleem |
On March 20, 2011, a series of three methane gas explosions occurred in a coal mine in Baluchistan, Pakistan. 43 miners were killed in the blast. It is reported that two people survived the disaster by not going into the mine that day. The mine is owned by the state-run Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation and was leased to a contractor. Two weeks prior to the explosion, the contractor had been asked to shut the mine down due to an excessive accumulation of methane gas.
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