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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 07:06 PM
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Siberian Mine Blast Kills 78; 50 Trapped
Source: Associated Press

A methane gas explosion deep in a Siberian coal mine killed at least 78 people and left another 50 trapped Monday in Russia's worst mining disaster in a decade.

Among the missing were company officials and safety experts who had been inspecting a British-made hazard-monitoring system, said Sergei Cheremnov, a spokesman for the regional government in Kemerovo where the mine is located about 1,850 miles east of Moscow.

A British man and his interpreter were among those killed, he said. It was unclear what the two were doing in the mine.

Up to 200 workers were in the Ulyanovskaya mine when the explosion occurred about 885 feet underground in the coal-rich southern region known as the Kuzbass, emergency and regional officials said. At least 75 people were rescued.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6493065,00.html
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