128 coal miners were being evacuated from a mine in Siberia amid reports of a fire
128 coal miners were being evacuated from a mine in Siberia amid reports of a fire
Total 128 coal miners were being evacuated Sunday from a mine in the Russian region of Siberia amid reports of a fire in one of its sections. The news comes weeks after a devastating blast in another Siberian coal mine killed 51 people.
Emergency officials told Russia's news agency's that a fire occurred in an abandoned mine gallery in the Anatoly Ruban coal mine in the Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia and about 140 miners were being evacuated.
A total of 128 miners have been evacuated from the mine, Interfax reported, citing mine operators as saying that 140 miners were supposed to be on shift Sunday, but only 128 miners were working at the time.
Russia has seen several major mine disasters since Soviet times. In 2007, a methane explosion at the Ulyanovskaya mine in the Kemerovo region killed 110 miners.
Three years later, two methane blasts and a fire killed 91 people at the Raspadskaya mine in the same Kemerovo region
