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Coal mining accident kills one in Russia
01 Mar 2007 11:11:49 GMT
Source: Reuters
MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) - One Russian coal miner was killed and nine were injured on Thursday after part of a shaft collapsed in a coal mining region in Siberia.

The administration of Siberia's Kemerovo region said in a statement that 94 miners were working underground at the mine in the town of Kiselyovsk at the time of the accident.

The accident occurred just days after another miner died in a similar accident in the same region. The Kemerovo region lies on some of the world's biggest coal reserves.

Russian miners often complain that safety rules are broken in the country's dilapidated network of coal mines. Many of the pits date from Josef Stalin's mass industrialisation drive of the 1930s.


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