The cause of the explosion at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk, according to one version, was the release of methane, said on Wednesday the head of the Ministry DND Alexei Kostrowicki.
"according to one version, it is an explosion of methane gas," quotes his words.
on Wednesday morning at the Zasyadko mine within the self-proclaimed DND explosion occurred. MES DND informed that the mine at the time of the explosion were 230 miners. On inaccurate data, confirmed the death of one person. In Mingle DND stated that the mine discovered the bodies of a few miners, but they have not yet raised to the surface. According to the Ministry of energy of Ukraine, another 17 people were injured, authorities DND told about fifteen received damage. The fate of 32 miners At this time remains unknown.
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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