GRAMOTEINO, Russia: More than 50 people were reported to have died on Thursday after smoke filled a Siberian coal mine and a rescue effort ended in tragedy.
"According to preliminary information, no one is left alive in the mine," state news agency TASS quoted a source in the local emergency services as saying.in the early hours of Thursday with 285 people inside.It was not immediately clear what had caused the accident, though some Russian media reported that dust in a ventilation shaft caught fire, causing the mine to fill with smoke.
Ambulances and fire trucks are parked near the Listvyazhnaya coal mine out of the Siberian city of Kemerovo, Nov 25, 2021. Rescuers enter a checkpoint of the Listvyazhnaya coal mine out of the Siberian city of Kemerovo, Nov 25, 2021. The governor declared a three-day mourning period in the region beginning Friday.
A methane blast in 2004 killed 13 people at the mine and another explosion at the site killed five people in 1981.
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