AYBAK: Four miners lost their lives due to a collapse in a section of a coal mine in Samangan province, the governor’s press office said in a statement today.
According to the statement, the accident occurred in a coal mine in the Laila and Qubi area of the Dara-e-Suf district in Samangan Province.
The deceased miners were reportedly residents of the Ashterly district of Daikundi Province, said the statement adding that the workers had been trapped inside the tunnel for three days, and their bodies were eventually recovered last night by the efforts of police and local residents.
The bodies of the deceased miners have been handed over to their families.
About a month ago, seven coal miners also lost their lives due to an explosion in one of the mine tunnels in Samangan Province.