According to the World Bulletin, the accident took place in Loralai district’s Dukki town, located about 145 kilometres off the provincial capital of Quetta.
Rasheed Abro, a senior coal mine inspector, said the victims had died from suffocation.
“A poisonous gas penetrated inside the coal mine causing the death of seven miners,” Pakistan’s English-language newspaper Dawn quoted Abro as saying.
Dukki and the surrounding areas of Baluchistan are rich in coal, but safety doesn’t seem to be a priority. Mine owners often compromise protective measures, and the number of deadly accidents is relatively high.
In early January, at least 12 workers were killed in a marble mine collapse in Pakistan’s troubled northwestern tribal region, near the border with Afghanistan.
Another six miners died in a similar accident in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Hangu district in December.