QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani mining official says a methane gas explosion in a private coal mine in the southwest has killed eight miners.

Senior mining inspector Iftikhar Ahmed said two miners were found unconscious after Monday’s blast, in Duki village.

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