The painful incident of the mine explosion in Tabas, Iran

Due to the sudden release of methane gas, an explosion occurred in one of the tunnels of Iran Company's coal mine.
Unfortunately, a tragic accident occurred on Monday evening at 9:00 pm when methane gas suddenly leaked from one of the mining company's tunnels and caused an explosion. At the time of the explosion, 69 workers were employed in this mine in Tabas.
In the early hours of the morning, news of a temporary increase in the number of casualties began to emerge, and the number of missing joined the dead by the minute.
The Director General of Crisis Management stated that the explosion in the mine was not a fire or severe destruction of the walls and clarified that the leakage of methane gas in the tunnels led to the suffocation of the forces in the coal mine.
Due to the concentration of gas in the tunnels, which caused an explosion at a depth of 250 meters vertically and 700 meters diagonally in the mine, relief efforts are still being carried out by special teams.
The death toll from the gas explosion in the Tabas coal mine rose to 52 people, 22 workers were injured.
Following the unfortunate accident at the Tabas mine and the death and injury of a number of workers, a three-day state mourning will be declared in South Khorasan Province from Monday, September 23.
SteelRadar extends its condolences to all the grieving Iranian families and the Iranian nation on this painful incident.