Poland, which relies on coal for some 70 per cent of its power, has had several other mining disasters in recent years.A tremor shook the pit at 3.40am, 900 metres below the surface, sparking a methane leak, its owner JSW said."Sadly, there is a strong possibility that there have been deaths," said Polish President Andrzej Duda, who visited the site late on Saturday.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who also visited the scene on Saturday, called the accident"devastating".JSW is also the owner of a mine in Pniowek some 230 kilometres south, where an accident on Wednesday killed five, including a rescuer, and left seven missing.A second shook the site while rescue workers were helping the victims of the first.The search for the seven people missing was called off on Friday after a third blast made conditions in the pit too dangerous, JSW said.
Mr Morawiecki stressed that both recent accidents would be"checked very carefully" to determine whether they were simple accidents due to natural causes or whether mistakes had been made. In addition to the 2018 accident in Zofiowka, last year two men were killed and two others injured when an underground wall collapsed at the southern Myslowice-Wesola mine.
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