Six workers died after mine collapsed in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Six workers were killed erstwhile the excavation they were moving successful collapsed owed to an detonation successful Kurram territory of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, rescue officials said connected Monday (October 13, 2025).

The incidental occurred successful Tora Warai, cardinal Kurram district, connected Sunday (October 12, 2025), erstwhile a conception of the excavation collapsed aft a blast, causing a abrupt emergence successful h2o level.

According to rescue officials, the blast triggered a surge successful underground water, which forced the excavation to cave in. The illness occurred soon aft the explosion, leaving the excavation workers stuck inside, the constabulary said.

The assemblage of 1 excavation idiosyncratic has been retrieved portion the remainder are inactive nether the rubble. Joint rescue teams from the Hangu and Kurram districts are astatine the country to retrieve the bodies of the remaining workers.