Miner Mohammad Ismail, 25, digs in a coal mine in Choa Saidan Shah, Punjab province, April 29, 2014. Workers at this mine in Choa Saidan Shah dig coal with pick axes, break it up and load it onto donkeys to be transported to the surface. Employed by private contractors, a team of four workers can dig about a ton of coal a day, for which they earn around $10 to be split between them. The coalmine is in the heart of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous and richest province, but the labourers mostly come from the poorer neighbouring region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Picture taken April 29, 2014. REUTERS/Sara Farid (PAKISTAN - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY ENERGY)
LORALAI: At least three miners died while two others were affected due to suffocation in a coal mine here.
District administration said that the deaths occurred after poisonous gas accumulated at Dukki coalmine in Loralai district of Balochistan.
Three miners stated to be hailing from Zhob died of suffocation while two others were affected by inhaling the toxic gas.
The bodies and affectees were shifted to Dukki Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
