Three coal miners killed in Marwar Quetta
Syed Ali Shah :
At least three coal miners were killed in a firing incident in Quetta’s Marwar area on Tuesday. Police sources said miscreants opened fire on coal miners in Marwar, which houses rich coal reservoirs.
All three coal miners were dead on the spot. The attackers managed to escape from the spot unhurt.
Police are shifting the dead bodies of the victims to civil hospital Quetta for postmortem. “This seems to be a targeted killing”, a senior police official told Quetta Voice. He requested anonymity.
“We are going towards the spot”, Gul Muhammad, the Station House Officer (SHO) Police Hana Urak said. He confirmed the killing of three coal mines in the incident.
He informed the firing incident took place at Deenar and National coal mines. The victims were identified as Hidayat ur Rehman, Gul Hakeem and Abdul Wakeel.
Miners belong to KP
The miners belonged to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of the country, police said. The victims were working in coal mines of the Marwar for a long time.
Police and Frontier Corps personnel reached the spot as an investigation into the incident went underway.
Miscreants in the past have also repeatedly targeted and kidnapped coal miners in the rugged mountains located in the Eastern outskirts of the provincial capital. Terrorists have also attacked security forces patrolling in the area.
Marwar and Sorange house rich coal mines
Marwar and Sorange areas of Quetta house rich coal mines. Thousands of miners from Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, Afghanistan, and some parts of Balochistan province have been extracting coal from mines for a long time.
Hazardous working conditions inside coal mines of Balochistan have also claimed scores of precious human lives in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan. Methane gas explosions, landsliding, and other incidents have almost become the order of the day in Balochistan’s Haranai, Dukki, Mach, Bolan areas.
