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CHRONOLOGY-Coal mine disasters in Russia

21 Mar 2007 16:07:54 GMT
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March 21 (Reuters) - Flags flew at half mast across Russia on Wednesday and entertainment programmes were cancelled as the country mourned a trio of disasters which took at least 176 lives.

Rescuers at the scene of the worst disaster, in a Siberian coal mine, said they had little hope of finding any more survivors, two days after a huge gas blast ripped through its underground tunnels, killing at least 107.

Following is a chronology of major disasters at Russian coal mines in the past 15 years:

Dec. 1992 - A methane gas blast in the Shevyakov mine in Siberia's Kemerovo region kills 25 miners.

Oct. 1993 - A methane explosion in the Central mine in Chelyabinsk region in the Urals kills 28 people.

Sept. 1995 - An explosion in the Pervomaiskaya mine in Kemerovo region kills 15 miners.

Dec. 1997 - A methane gas explosion rips through the Zyryanovskaya mine in the city of Novokuznetsk in western Siberia, killing 67 miners.

Jan. 1998 - A powerful explosion at the Tsentralnaya mine in the Arctic town of Vorkuta kills 27 miners.

March 2000 - Twelve people die during rescue effort after a blast in the Komsomolets mine in Siberia's Kemerovo region.

June 2003 - A methane explosion in the Ziminka mine in Kemerovo region kills 12 people.

April 10, 2004 - A gas explosion at the Taizhina colliery in Siberia's Kemerovo region kills 47.

Oct. 28, 2004 - A methane blast at the Listvyazhnaya mine in Siberia kills 13.

Feb. 9, 2005 - An explosion in the Yesaulskaya mine in Kemerovo kills 25.

Sept. 7, 2006 - Twenty-five miners die in a fire at a remote gold mine in Eastern Siberia near the border with China.

March 19, 2007 - A gas explosion at the Ulyanovskaya mine in Kemerovo region kills 107 people. The mine, in Siberia's Kuznetsk basin, or Kuzbass, holds some of the biggest coal reserves in the world.

Source: Reuters and the Independent Trade Union of Russian Miners.

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