Kafkar coal mines...Afghanistan, Pul-i-Khumri, Baglan....Kafkar coal mines in Baglan. In the North of Afghanistan there are 11 coal mines. Four of them are the propriety of the government the others are illegal and owned by the warlords. Kafkar is one of the legal one. The conditions are absolutly horrific. The material is really old and dated. Accident are very frequent. There is no contact possible between the men underground and the ones on the top. They have only a few lamp to check the...
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Kafkar coal mines...Afghanistan, Pul-i-Khumri, Baglan....Kafkar coal mines in Baglan. In the North of Afghanistan there are 11 coal mines. Four of them are the propriety of the government the others are illegal and owned by the warlords. Kafkar is one of the legal one. The conditions are absolutly horrific. The material is really old and dated. Accident are very frequent. There is no contact possible between the men underground and the ones on the top. They have only a few lamp to check the presence of carbon dioxyde. On the average, each man get gazed 10 times in a year... All that for a 100 dollar per month... 106 miners work in Kafkar night and days. ..
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