{"id":35487,"date":"2026-01-11T03:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35487"},"modified":"2026-01-11T03:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:04:36","slug":"four-killed-in-mine-accident-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35487","title":{"rendered":"Four killed in mine accident in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Four miners in northern Afghanistan were suffocated to death by fumes this week while digging for gemstones, a local official told AFP on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The incident occurred in Khash District of Badakhshan province where four workers at a mine died&#8221;, Ehsanullah Kamgar, the spokesman for Badakhshan&#8217;s police told AFP, adding the deaths occurred on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The miners were searching for precious stones underground and &#8220;died due to suffocation caused by fumes emitted from a stone-crushing machine&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not respond to AFP&#8217;s request for comment on whether the mine was operating officially or illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan mines marble, minerals, gold, and precious stones as well as coal.<\/p>\n<p>Resources, including copper and lithium, buried across Afghanistan&#8217;s rocky landscape are estimated to be worth a trillion dollars, according to US and UN assessments from 2010 and 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four miners in northern Afghanistan were suffocated to death by fumes this week while digging for gemstones, a local official told AFP on Saturday. &#8220;The incident occurred in Khash District of Badakhshan province where four workers at a mine died&#8221;, Ehsanullah Kamgar, the spokesman for Badakhshan&#8217;s police told AFP, adding the deaths occurred on Friday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}