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Ukraine: three miners perish at Pokrovsk after gas outburst

After a sudden gas and coal outburst in Donetsk region three miners perished.

“On July 30, a sudden gas and coal outburst occurred at the Pokrovske Mine Group, during which three employees working in the mine disappeared,” the Ministry of Energy reported in Facebook.

Within several hours of the rescue operations, the miners were found dead. They were the scraping machine engineer Vitaliy Kharin, as well as two diggers Artem Fedorenko and Yebhen Nochka.

The reason of the accident is as yet unknown. (Ukrainian metal)

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