Six rescuers were also among those who died in the accident.
At least 52 people have died in a blast inside a coal mine that took place in Russia’s Siberia region on Thursday, TASS news agency reported. Six rescuers were also among those killed in the explosion. “According to the preliminary data, there were no survivors in the coalmine,” an unidentified official from the emergency services told the news agency. A spark had led to a methane gas explosion and subsequent fire at the Listvyazhnaya mine in Siberia’s Kemerovo region on Thursday, AP reported.
