September 15, 2013 11:31 am | Updated June 02, 2016 12:11 pm IST - Kabul
At least 27 people were killed and 20 others injured in a coal mine collapse in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
The incident occurred Saturday at the Abkhorak mine in Ro-e-Dohab district in the northern province of Samangan, provincial government spokesman Mohammad Seddiq Azizi told Xinhua .
Hundreds of locals joined police and rescue personnel to help save many lives in the incident.
The province with Aybak as its capital is around 200 km from Kabul.
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