PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, June 11 (Xinhua) -- A coalminer lost his life and another went unconscious due to gas suffocation in a coalmine in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province on Saturday, said a statement from provincial police office released here Sunday.
The laborers were working in a coalmine in Tala-o-Barfak district on Saturday when a poisonous gas leaked and resultantly a miner was killed and another fainted, the statement said, adding the fainted miner had been taken to hospital.
Non-standard mining, poor equipment and unskilled workers to extract the underground treasures, according to Afghans, often claim the lives of miners in Afghanistan. ■
