The fate of one miner after the explosion at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk remains unknown, 33 miners lost their lives, 16 damaged, informs the Ministry of energy of Ukraine on Thursday.
In the morning on March 4 at the Zasyadko mine within the self-proclaimed DND explosion occurred, under the ground at this point was 230 miners. MES DND and controlled by the Kyiv Donetsk regional state administration said about the death of 32 people, the location of yet another miner unknown. The body 14 of the victims have already brought to the surface. Prosecutor General's office said on 16 injured as a result of the explosion.
"the fate of one miner remains unknown. Exploration of an emergency site (where it can be edited) continues. Liquidation of consequences of the catastrophe continues, " informs the Ministry of energy of Ukraine.
according to the Agency, at the time of the accident in the mine were 232 miner, of which 50 people were at the emergency site." 33 persons without signs of life (14 employees submitted on the surface), 7 persons with burns and injuries of various degrees, nine persons have been poisoned ", - informs the Ministry about their data, which it has.
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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