KABUL, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Two gold miners lost their lives as the tunnel of a gold mine collapsed in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Wednesday, provincial police spokesman Ehsanullah Kamgar said Thursday.
The ill-fated miners were busy in extracting gold from a gold mine in Arghanch Khah district on Wednesday but a tunnel caved in, killing two miners on the spot, the official added.
Previously, a similar incident claimed two lives of gold miners and injured another in Raghistan district of Badakhshan in July this year.
Non-standard mining, lack of modern machinery, illegal extraction of mines by unskilled workers and ignoring safety precautions often claim the lives of poor workers in Afghanistan. ■