March 6, 2015

17 dead in coal-mine explosion

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 KYIV – The spokeswoman for the Emergency Situations Ministry in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has confirmed that 17 bodies have been removed from a coal mine following an explosion. Yuliana Bedilo said late on March 4 that the search continued for another 16 miners still missing after a blast at the Zasiadko mine earlier in the day. Authorities in Kyiv were attempting to send rescue teams to the region in eastern Ukraine but, according to Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, pro-Russian separatists were refusing to allow rescue teams access to the scene. “That is why I am publicly calling on the Russian Federation – order these rascals to allow our mine-rescue brigades to save the lives of miners,” Mr. Yatsenyuk said. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by TASS and the Associated Press)

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