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More than 300 evacuated from Siberian mine, no casualties

Mar 21, 2007, 11:31 GMT

Moscow - More than 300 miners were evacuated Wednesday from a Siberian mine after a tunnel filled with smoke, two days after a neighbouring mine witnessed post-Soviet Russia's worst mining disaster. All 370 workers emerged safely from the Alardinsk mine, 3,000 kilometres east of Moscow in Russia's Kemerovo region, after heavy smoke was detected in the facility. The smoke appeared after a cart carrying equipment into the mine came off its track, damaging a power cable, regional Emergency Situations Ministry officials told Interfax. Workers subsequently discovered six broken partitions in the mine, ordering work at the facility halted. The evacuation occurred as Russia marked a day of mourning after a series of tragedies, including a plane crash that killed 7, a nursing home fire that claimed 63 lives and an explosion caused at least 107 deaths at another Kemerovo region mine. Both mines are owned by the Yuzhkuzbassugol mining venture and located in the coal-rich area of Siberia known as the Kuzbass. Many of the area's mines date back to Soviet times, and accidents in the industry have plagued the region for years. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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