KABUL, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Two miners were killed and two others sustained injuries due to a blast inside a mine in the northern Afghanistan Badakhshan province on Monday, provincial police spokesman Ehsanullah Kamgar said Tuesday.
The accident occurred in Ragistan district on Monday afternoon, leaving two dead on the spot and injuring two others, the official added without furnishing more details.
It was the second accident of its kind in Afghanistan over the past week. In the previous accident, one miner lost his life and another was injured as the tunnel of a mine collapsed.
In post-war Afghanistan, the miners often extract the underground treasures with old-fashioned traditional instruments and a lack of safety measures, which sometimes leads to disaster and fatalities. ■