{"id":244873,"date":"2025-10-27T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244873\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:54:08","slug":"two-people-dead-after-underground-mine-explosion-at-cobar-in-western-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244873\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people dead after underground mine explosion at Cobar, in western NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man and a woman are dead after an explosion at an underground mine in western New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency service crews were called to the mine on Endeavour Mine Road at Cobar, about 450 kilometres east of Broken Hill, about 3:45am, after reports two people had been critically injured in a workplace incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers from Central North Police District were told a man had died in the underground explosion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two women were brought to the surface, but one has since died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The second woman has been flown to hospital suffering hearing damage and shock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services remain at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">NSW Police will prepare a report for the coroner and assist SafeWork NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and a woman are dead after an explosion at an underground mine in western New South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,33041,104700,11224,145714,62900,44,33477,145713],"class_list":["post-244873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cobar","tag-explosion","tag-fatal","tag-industrial-accident","tag-mine","tag-news","tag-underground","tag-workplace-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}