{"id":23930,"date":"2024-03-20T09:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=23930"},"modified":"2024-03-20T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:23:19","slug":"12-die-in-pakistan-coalmine-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/20\/12-die-in-pakistan-coalmine-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Die in Pakistan Coalmine Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 labourers were killed when a coalmine collapsed in south-western Pakistan after a gas explosion on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred overnight in the town of Harnai in the province of Balochistan, trapping at least two dozen workers, a local official, Qismatullah Tareen said.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers scrambled for several hours through the rubble to retrieve bodies and pulled at least 12 injured people alive, said Mohamed Ahmer from the provincial rescue department.<\/p>\n<p>Gas explosions and accidents inside Pakistan\u2019s coal mines known as `black death holes,\u2019 kill hundreds of workers every year, according to data by the Industrial Global Union.<\/p>\n<p>According to the All Pakistan Mines Association, coal miners work in extremely hazardous conditions without safety gear, proper training, life insurance and backup for rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 labourers were killed when a coalmine collapsed in south-western Pakistan after a gas explosion on Wednesday. The explosion occurred overnight in the town of Harnai in the province of Balochistan, trapping at least two dozen workers, a local official, Qismatullah Tareen said. Rescuers scrambled for several hours through the rubble to retrieve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":23931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23932,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23930\/revisions\/23932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}