Avalanche at Afghan gold mine leaves two dead, six injured

Two people were killed and six others injured when an avalanche struck a mountainside in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan on Saturday, provincial police spokesman Ehsanullah Kamgar said Sunday, Report informs via Xinhua news agency.

The accident occurred when a group of gold miners were working at a gold mine in Arghanjkhwa district to extract the precious metal, the official said.

Provincial authorities airlifted the bodies of the deceased and the injured by helicopter to a hospital in Faizabad, the provincial capital, Kamgar added.