Four killed in mine accident in Afghanistan

Four killed in mine accident in Afghanistan

Four miners in northern Afghanistan were suffocated to death by fumes this week while digging for gemstones, a local official told AFP on Saturday. "The incident occurred in Khash District of Badakhshan province where four workers at a mine died", Ehsanullah Kamgar, the spokesman for Badakhshan's police told AFP, adding the deaths occurred on Friday. The miners were searching for precious stones underground and "died due to suffocation caused by…