{"id":91366,"date":"2025-12-23T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=91366"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:48:06","slug":"two-killed-in-underground-explosion-at-polish-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/two-killed-in-underground-explosion-at-polish-coal-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in underground explosion at Polish coal mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW: Two workers were killed due to an outburst of methane and rock \u200bmasses at the Pniowek coal mine in southern Poland, owner JSW said on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that after 5 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Monday, a large amount of methane \u200cwas released \u200cat the Pniowek \u200cmine, \u2060where a \u200bhigh-performance \u200croadheader was operating with 10 workers underground.<\/p>\n<p>Eight managed to evacuate on their own, while contact with two others was lost, JSW said. After a seven-hour rescue operation, \u2060teams located the missing miners who \u200cwere pronounced dead at \u200dthe scene \u200dby a doctor, the company \u200dsaid.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, Poland&#8217;s Prime Minister Donald Tusk offered condolences to the victims&#8217; families on X, while President \u200bKarol Nawrocki said he received the news of the miners&#8217; \u2060deaths &#8220;with great sorrow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Polish Press Agency (PAP) said that the deaths were the 14th and 15th fatalities in mining accidents in Poland this year, and the 11th and 12th in hard coal mines. The Pniowek mine is among the country&#8217;s operations with \u200cthe highest methane risk, PAP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW: Two workers were killed due to an outburst of methane and rock \u200bmasses at the Pniowek coal mine in southern Poland, owner JSW said on Monday evening. The company said that after 5 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Monday, a large amount of methane \u200cwas released \u200cat the Pniowek \u200cmine, \u2060where a \u200bhigh-performance \u200croadheader was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":91384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91386,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91366\/revisions\/91386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}