Prosecutor General's office said that during the explosion at the mine in the Donbass in the environment were injured 16 people, 32 lost his life.

on Wednesday morning at the Zasyadko mine explosion occurred. According to the Ministry DND, in the mine at the time of the explosion were 230 miners, 157 people were brought to the surface. The body 14 of the victims have already brought to the surface. MES DND and controlled by the Kyiv Donetsk regional state administration has already announced the 32 victims. According to the Ministry of energy of Ukraine, 17 people were injured, authorities DND told about fifteen received damage.

"according to the on position 9. 00 on March 5, during the explosion at the Zasyadko mine lost his life 32 persons, 16 of miners with injuries of varying severity were taken to hospital, " notes on the Internet office of the Supervisory authority. State enterprise of Ukraine opened a case about failure to follow instructions of security.

above the head of the Ministry DND Alexei Kostrowicki said that the cause of the explosion at the mine, according to one version, was the release of methane. However, the official version of the cause of the explosion will be announced Only the finished work of the Commission of inquiry of the causes of PE, told in the Ministry.

The Zasyadko mine is one of the largest coal plants in Ukraine - was introduced in 1958. Before the mine have been a number of major disasters, for example, in 2007, as a result of the explosion of a methane-air mixtures died 101 miner. Over the past year because of the attacks on the mine occurred periodically blackouts, because it was carried out the evacuation of miners. Only since the beginning of 2015 this was More than five times. At the end of November when it hit a mine died one miner.

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