Gunmen killed 21 miners and wounded six others in Pakistan’s southwest, a police official said Friday, drawing condemnation from authorities as a search was launched for the assailants.
The latest attack in restive Balochistan province came days ahead of a major security summit being hosted in the capital.
Police official Hamayun Khan Nasir said the attackers also fired rockets, lobbed grenades at the mine and damaged machinery before fleeing.
One person was killed and 12 people were rescued after being trapped for about six hours at the bottom of a former Colorado gold mine when an elevator malfunctioned at the tourist site, authorities said.
The elevator was descending into the Mollie Kathleen gold mine near the town of cripple creek when it had a mechanical problem around 500 feet beneath the surface, creating a “severe danger for the participants,” Teller County sheriff Jason Mikesell said.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo… a japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki… for its activism against nuclear weapons.
Jørgen Watne Frydnes… chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure.”
Miles schiffer can be reach at schi9629@stthomas.edu