A gas explosion inside a coalmine 40 kilometres from Quetta left at least 12 miners trapped under the rubble on Thursday.
Shahid Rind, spokesperson for the Balochistan government, said that rescue teams had been dispatched to the scene of the incident in Sanjadi.
Chief Mines Officer Abdul Ghani Baloch said that a rescue operation had been started. He said that rescuers received the information about explosion inside the mine an hour after the accident took place. He said the mine had collapsed completely from inside.
Reporter: Essa Tareen