Six miners were killed in a coal mine explosion in northern Iran, Iran's IRIB news agency reported on Monday.
The explosion occurred at the Tazareh Coal Mine in Semnan province at 19:30 local time (1600 GMT) on Sunday, causing a ceiling collapse and trapping the miners in a tunnel. Their bodies were discovered on Monday morning.
The explosion was caused by accumulated gas in the tunnel, and rescuers reached the miners' bodies after approximately 10 hours at a depth of 700 meters inside the tunnel, according to the IRIB.
Solat Mortazavi, Iran's minister of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare, confirmed that the gas in the tunnel causing the explosion was methane.
A similar incident occurred in May 2021 when two miners died due to a tunnel ceiling collapse at the same coal mine.
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