Death toll in Iran’s coal mine explosion rises to 49, all remaining workers presumed dead

The incidental took spot successful a excavation successful Tabas, astir 540 kilometers southeast of the capital, Tehran. The nonstop figures of the fig of workers successful the excavation astatine the clip of the incidental has fluctuated. A methane state leak connected Saturday led to the detonation successful the mine.

In this photograph released by Iranian Red Crescent Society, miners and constabulary officers stitchery astir the tract of a ember excavation wherever methane leak sparked an detonation connected Saturday, successful Tabas, immoderate 335 miles (540 kilometers) southeast of the superior Tehran, Iran, Sunday. (AP Photo)

According to quality agency Associated Press, 70 radical had been moving successful the excavation astatine the clip of the blast. Bodies which person been recovered by the Iranian medication person shown nary motion of blast injuries which is conclusive to beryllium that workers died up of the blast by state leak.

The politician of South Khorasan Province Ali Akbar Rahimi told authorities TV connected Sunday that “76% of the country’s ember is provided from this portion and astir 8 to 10 large companies are moving successful the portion including Madanjoo company.”

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and said, “I spoke with ministers and we volition bash our champion to travel up.”

It was not wide arsenic to what each information measures were contiguous wrong the privately held Tabas Parvadeh 5 mine, operated by Mandanjoo Co.