Peshawar: At least 18 miners were killed and more than a dozen were still trapped Tuesday after a landslide at a marble mine in northwestern Pakistan, he said.
White marble rocks crashed into staff Monday night in the Mohmand mountain district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, near the border with Afghanistan.
“So far, 18 bodies and 20 wounded have been eliminated after a landslide in a marble mine,” Muhammad Arif, provincial minister of Mines and Mineral Development, told AFP.
He said about 20 more miners would be trapped in the rubble with a rescue project.
Workers rest at the foot of the mountain after long working days.
A senior mohmand district official, Hamid Iqbal, showed the death toll.
Pakistan’s mines are notorious for their poor standards of protection: dozens of minors are killed each year in security-related incidents.
At least miners died in Balochistan’s Sorange district in 2011 after an explosion at a coal mine.
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