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Goldmine tunnel collapse kills 1, injures 2 in N. Afghanistan

Faizabad, Afghanistan, Feb 6 (UNI) A gold miner lost his life, and two others were injured as a tunnel of a gold mine collapsed in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Wednesday, provincial police spokesman Ehsanullah Kamgar said Thursday.
The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon when a group of miners were busy extracting the precious element in a gold mine in Yaftal district outside the provincial capital Faizabad, leaving a miner dead and injuring two others, the official added.
This is the third incident in Afghanistan over the past week.
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