andriy-klyuyev – The Mail & Guardian

/ 20 November 2007

Rescue teams battle Ukraine mine fire, 80 dead

Rescue teams battled smoke and high temperatures on Monday as they pressed on with the task of tracking down 20 missing miners in a Ukrainian coal mine after a methane explosion killed at least 80 others. Distraught family members demanded information about victims more than 24 hours after the explosion.

By Yuri Kulikov

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/ 19 November 2007

Seventy dead as rescue teams battle Ukraine mine fire

Rescue teams battled a tenacious fire in a Ukrainian colliery on Monday as they strove to locate 30 miners missing underground after a methane blast killed at least 70 miners. The explosion at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk, heart of Ukraine’s Donbass coalfield, is likely to become the country’s deadliest accident since independence from Soviet rule in 1991.

By Yuri Kulikov