Working in progress to save 10 coal miners stucked in submerged coal pit

THATTA: A rescue operation has been initiated in Jhimpir coalmine to harmlessly takeout 10 miners stucked in the mine since July 05, Tuesday.

The miners were stucked in the coalmine in Jhimpir on July 05 Tuesday, after it was submerged with rainwater. However no worker is taken out from the mine till yet.

Localized laborers, 1122 emergency service’s rescuers and the administration of district Thatta has been executing the rescue operation to take out the stucked miners safely.

The rescue workers struggling due to rainfall, deputy commissioner Thatta Ghazanfar Ali has said.

The miners were stucked after rainwater submerged a coal mine near Jhimpir on July 05.

Energy Minister for Sindh Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh has said that a rescue operation has been ongoing for taking out the miners from the mine.

Last year a coalmine near Jhimpir was crumbled when six miners were working in it. The rescue teams had managed to evacuate dead bodies of three miners.

Coal miners work in miserable conditions in Pakistan with negligible safety measures.

Accidents of explosions are caused by piling up of poisonous gases in mines which cause collapse of mines, putting miners’ lives in danger.

As per reports by Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation about 200 miners die and hundreds of others are injured in repeated incidents in coal mines only in Balochistan each year.