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Identification of 38 bodies lifted out of mine in Siberia · 2007-05-25 11:38
Rescue efforts have finished at a West n coal mine torn by a methane explosion Thursday morning, which left 38 dead and seven injured, local emergency officials said, updating earlier reports of 35 dead and three missing.
"The death toll is 38 people," the emergencies department in the Kemerovo Region said. "179 miners were rescued, of whom seven were injured and have been hospitalized."
The explosion at the Yubileinaya mine occurred at 7.40 a.m. Moscow time, when 217 miners were working underground. The accident follows a powerful methane blast at a neighboring mine, owned by the same company, on March 19 when 110 miners died.
The emergencies department also said that all 38 bodies had been lifted out of the mine, and that identification would begin Friday, RIA Novosti informs.
A local health official said earlier three miners were in a serious condition.
Local prosecutors said they had launched an inquiry into a breach of mine safety rules. A technological safety watchdog said Yuzhkuzbasugol, Russia's largest underground coal mining company, could have its license to operate Yubileinaya and some other mines withdrawn.
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