The death toll from a coal mine blast in a separatist eastern region of Ukraine rose to 13 on Saturday, with another four people missing, news agencies reported.
The gas blast on Thursday ripped through the mine in Yurievka village in the self-proclaimed republic of Lugansk, which broke away from Kiev in 2014 and is run by Moscow-backed rebels.
“Rescuers recovered from under the debris… the bodies of 13 miners,” the news agency of the unrecognised republic said.On Friday, Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the self-proclaimed republic, called the explosion at the Skhidcarbon mine a “terrible tragedy.” Russia’s emergency situations ministry sent mine rescuers to the separatist territory after it requested help, it said in a statement.
The Lugansk news agency said the mine was closed in 2014 due to the conflict between Kiev’s forces and the Russia-backed separatists, but was reopened in 2018. Most of Ukraine’s coal is produced in its eastern region, where the ongoing fighting has cost some 13,000 lives.For more news your way, download The Citizen’s app for
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