Explosion at Iranian coalmine leaves at least 34 workers dead
In this photo released by Iranian Red Crescent Society, miners and police officers are seen at the site of a coal mine where a methane leak sparked an explosion on Saturday, in Tabas, some 335 miles southeastern of the capital, Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2024
[Iranian Red Crescent Society] 
AN EXPLOSION at a coalmine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17, officials said today, making it one of the worst mining disasters in the country’s history.
The blast struck a mine in Tabas, 335 miles south-east of the capital Tehran, on Saturday night.
Today, weeping miners stood alongside mine wagons that brought up the bodies of their colleagues, covered in coal dust.
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