A dump truck transports excavated rock along an access road at the Mafube open-cast coal mine in Mpumalanga. (Photo: Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg via Getty Images) “A group of armed men attacked the Junaid Coal company mines in the Duki area in the wee hours using heavy weapons,” said Humayun Khan, the police station house officer for the town, located east of the city of Quetta. They fired rockets and grenades at the mines as well, he added.
“We have received 20 bodies and six injured so far at the district hospital,” said Johar Khan Shadizai, a doctor in Duki.
(Reporting by Saleem Ahmad in Quetta; Writing by Gibran Peshimam and Ariba Shahid; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)