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Russia mine blast kills 5, injures 14
At least five miners were killed and 14 injured in a blast in a coal mine in Russia's Siberia, a government spokeswoman said on Thursday. "At 9.45 a.m. (0145 GMT) we received the signal for a methane blast. At the time, a 45-strong repair team was working in that part of the mine. Five were killed and 14 injured," said a spokeswoman for the government of Siberia's Kemerovo region. "The fate of others underground is unknown." The Emergencies Ministry in Moscow said 240 people were underground at the time of the explosion. Itar-Tass news agency reported that rescue workers had managed to evacuate five wounded miners to the surface at the Kemerovo region's "Listvyazhnaya" mine, near Russia's border with Mongolia. A blast in the Kemerovo region in April killed 45 miners, and a flooded mineshaft last October trapped 11 miners underground for a week in a mine near Ukraine. |
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