Landslides are frequent in the northern mountainous provinces of Afghanistan. Rohani said about 50 illegal miners were present in the mine when the incident occurred and two rescue teams were deployed to help the injured. Rohani said seven people were injured alongside the at least 30 killed, while they were working inside the mine in Kohistan district. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban leaders carried out an audacious plot on Monday to free nearly 500 fighters from southern Afghanistan’s largest prison, leading them through a tunnel … Afghanistan Cordaid: Afghan women, frontline defenders of democracy 10 Jan 2020 OCHA: Afghanistan: Weekly Humanitarian Update (30 December 2019 - 5 January 2020) 08 Jan 2020 On Saturday, heavy snow caused the roofs of two houses to collapse, killing at least eight people, including women and children, a spokesman for the province's governor said.Other parts of the country have experienced heavy rainfall. Two days after 9/11, in my poetry seminar at Queens College—City University of New York, we were scheduled to discuss Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead," her 1938 sequence about the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, in 1929.
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KABUL (Reuters) - At least 30 Afghans were killed on Sunday when the tunnel they were digging in to mine gold in northern Afghanistan collapsed, officials said. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
The officials said the death toll could rise further, with Afghanistan's Natural Disaster Management Authority still trying to compile a total figure.
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They dig tunnels to enter the mines,” Nek Mohammad Nazari, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said. Last year the Afghan government signed two contracts for the exploration of copper and gold deposits in northern provinces, to try to prevent illegal mining and move away from its dependence on foreign aid by tapping its natural resources. death notices broadcast by state-owned Radio Kabul have lasted from 15 to 25 min. Where was the Salang Tunnel Fire: Hindu Kush Mountains, Afghanistan. The officials said the death toll could rise further, with Afghanistan's Natural Disaster Management Authority still trying to compile a total figure. Heavy snowfall has closed many key roads since the New Year, including the Salang Tunnel connecting central Afghanistan with the north of the country, and the Kabul-Kandahar highway. At least 30 Afghans were killed on Sunday when the tunnel they were digging in to mine gold in northern Afghanistan collapsed, officials said. Heavy snowfall has closed many key roads since the New Year, including the Salang Tunnel connecting central Afghanistan with the north of the country, and the Kabul-Kandahar highway. This time, however, the Afghan capital is reeling from a disaster that perhaps no one intended. The top estimate is 2,750 dead, mainly Red Army soldiers, but this is pure speculation. He said the tunnel had caved in. A police spokesman for Badakhshan province, Sanaullah Rohani, earlier said the cause of the accident, which occurred in heavy snowfall, was a landslide. As of 13 January, media report at least 17 fatalities.