At least 30 people have been ended and 17 are injured after a methane leak igniteed an explosion at a coal mine in easerious Iran, state media alerts.
Another 24 miners are consentd to be trapped inside after the explosion struck a mine in Tabas, some 335 miles southeast of the capital, Tehran.
The state-run IRNA recents agency shelp authorities had sent ecombinency personnel to the area.
Around 70 people had been laboring there at the time of the blast, which happened procrastinateed Saturday
It is not evident if any remain trapped inside.
Iran’s recent plivent Masoud Pezeshkian, preparing to travel to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, shelp he ordered all efforts be made to get back those trapped and help their families.
He also shelp an spendigation into the incident had befirearm.
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