Fire erupts at coal mine in Russia`s Kemerovo region

  03 June 2016    Read: 1781
Fire erupts at coal mine in Russia`s Kemerovo region
Fire erupted in Zarechnaya coal mine transforming station in Russia`s Kemerovo Region, the evacuation of miners is underway, AzVision.az reports citing RIA Novosti.
"Fire broke out at the transforming station at a depth of 100 meters [109 yards], at the moment there were 103 miners. Twenty five [miners] have already been brought out of the mine, four of them have already asked for medical treatment," the source said.

The source added that mine-rescuers had already headed for the mine to estimate the scale of an accident and to evacuate the rest of miners.

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