Kabul, May 12 (UNI) Three miners lost their lives after part of a mine of mini-precious stones collapsed in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Sunday, local media reported Monday.
The ill-fated miners were busy extracting mini-precious stones in a mine of the natural treasure in Ashkashiem district on Sunday, but suddenly part of the mine caved in, killing three workers on the spot, Tolonews quoted a provincial government official Mohammad Kamgar as saying.
A similar accident claimed the lives of two gold miners in Badakhshan's neighboring Takhar province in late March this year.
The lack of modern machinery in the mining sector, poor safety measures, illegal extraction of mines by unskilled miners and the use of outdated techniques have put the lives of mineworkers at risk in the war-torn Afghanistan.
UNI XINHUA ARN