Fatality: Two miners die of suffocation

MANSEHRA: Two miners died of suffocation in a coal mine at a remote village of Balakot on Friday afternoon. Sources said that the two miners were digging a coal mine in Kanshiyan village without any safety precautions when the mine got engulfed in gas, killing both of them. Rescue workers were called in from another district since the local ones did not have safety masks. The deceased were identified as Abid,12, and Zaid,12.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 15^th, 2012.